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Historical Event on 2/4/1991
An abortive bid to hijack a Calcutta-Agartala flight by a 24-year old youth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1939 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention. |
| 4/4/1942 | Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War. |
| 5/27/2000 | In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel. |
| 5/20/1992 | Jayalalitha sacks R. M. Veerappan from her cabinet in Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/24/1995 | Kanpur University renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University. |
| 9/4/1999 | Umesh Chandra, Assistant Inspector General of Police, shot dead by the PWG in Hyderabad. |
| 6/1/1842 | Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born. |
| 3/20/1602 | United East India Company of the Netherlands i.e. Dutch East India Company was chartered by States-General of Holland. During its 96-year history, it became one of the world's most powerful companies. |
| 11/3/1984 | 3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India. |
| 10/27/1605 | Akbar (Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din), Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605), passed away of diarrhea or dysentery at the age of 63 years. After his death his body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra. |
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