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Historical Event on 9/4/1952
India returns Peking's famine-relief aid, saying it had political strings attached.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/30/1974 | India, Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban. |
| 7/1/1882 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great professor, politician, physician, leader and veteran nationalist, was born at Patna. |
| 2/18/1992 | 47 die in Tamil Nadu's Kumbakonam Mahamakham stampede. |
| 11/5/1956 | Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary. |
| 12/20/1957 | Satyajit Ray's 'Pather Panchali' is declared the best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. |
| 11/17/1935 | Deodhar Gopal Krishna, great social worker and architect of ""Seva Sadan"" (Pune), passed away. |
| 1/2/1991 | Thiruvananthapuram airport declared India's fifth International Airport. |
| 5/16/1996 | Atal Krishna Behari Vajpayee, leader of Bharatiya Janta Party, becomes the 10th Prime Minister for 13 days (from May 16, 1996 to May 28, 1996 [techinally till 01-06-1996]), although his ability to govern effectively is in doubt. |
| 5/16/1996 | Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India. |
| 2/17/1994 | Former US Congressman Stephan Solarz named Ambassador of India. |
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