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Historical Event on 9/4/1929
N. Hanumantha Rao, cricket test umpire for 9 tests from 1978-84, was born in Karnataka.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/17/1992 | Lok Sabha rejects no-trust motion. |
| 1/4/1937 | R. Surendranath, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s), was born in Meerut. |
| 2/13/1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London. |
| 3/21/1939 | Gandhi calls on world to disarm, thinks Hitler would follow. |
| 6/20/1995 | Mayavati Government wins vote of confidence. |
| 9/10/1999 | Top seeds Bhupathi and Paes finished runners-up in the US Open doubles, losing to Sebastien Lareau and Alex O'Brien in the final. |
| 3/15/1920 | Ranganandhan Francis, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 10/27/1947 | Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 12/6/1897 | Lekhraj Kishanchand Mirchandani (Aziz), famous Sindhi poet, essay writer and critic, was born. |
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