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Historical Event on 6/4/1989
Melville de Mellow, Eminent broadcaster, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/15/1947 | Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born. Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India. |
| 9/9/1944 | Mahatma Gandhi conducted several talks between 9th September to 27the September with Mohammed Ali Jinnah regarding Pakistan. |
| 10/24/1934 | Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay. |
| 4/3/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi seals the border between Punjab and Pakistan. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
| 4/26/1995 | Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne. |
| 5/16/1994 | Phani Mujumdar, veteran film producer and director, passed away. |
| 4/29/1997 | R. N. Malhotra, 71, former RBI Governor, died. |
| 7/16/1905 | A decision to boycott British goods was taken at Bagarhat. |
| 5/31/1981 | First developmental launch of SLV-3, Rohini (RS-D1) placed in orbit. It was used for conducting some remote sensing technology studies using a landmark sensor payload. |
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