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Historical Event on 7/4/1897

Nanaksingh, famous Punjabi novelist, was born in a Hindu family in village Chak Hamid, Tehsil Dadan Khan, District Jhelum (now in Pakistan).

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/28/1974Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, famous economist, politician and journalist, passed away.
10/11/1894Sudhirranjan Das, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
10/24/1994The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.
11/5/1997Railway ministry doubles compensation amounts from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs.4 lakh to victims of railway accidents and other untoward incidents.
8/30/1645Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty.
4/27/1919Ustad Allarakha Khan, great Tabla player, was born.
1/1/1910Rajnath Pandey, great writer and educationist, was born in Pindra, Varanasi (U.P.).
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
7/13/1947An Indian Independence Bill was moved in the British Parliament on 4th July 1947 which became an 'Act' on 13th July 1947. Two Boundary Commissions under Sir Cyril Radcliff were appointed to demarcate the boundaries of Punjab and Bengal.
1/21/1969First India built electronic digital computer commissioned.