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Historical Event on 3/4/1925

Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/17/1996Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.
11/25/1998Prof. K. S. Hegde (75), former Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University and educationist, dies in New Delhi. He was selected by the Government of India for overseas scholarship for post graduate studies and higher technical training abroad during the pre-independence era.
1/11/1986The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.
8/22/1877Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.
3/30/1949New Union of Greater Rajasthan was ceremonially inaugurated by Patel when the existing Union of Rajasthan was joined by four premier states of Bikaner, Jaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmer. Hiralal Shastri became its first Chief Minister.
7/3/1998Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
4/18/1858Bharatratna Dhondo Keshav Karve, great educationalist and social reformer, was born.
5/18/1932Hindu-Muslim riots take place in Bombay. 150 are killed or injured. Jinnah - the permanent president of the Muslim league, began to spread the rumors that Muslim minority was in danger under Hindu majority and actively propagated the theory of two separate nations.
6/18/1858Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi died while fighting with the British troops in the battlefield near Gwalior.
12/12/1901Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore founded the first dance school called as ""Kala Bhawan"" and established the ""Barahamacharya Ashram"", the core of Vishwa Bharati University of Shantiniketan, near Bolpur. It was formally opened on December.