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Historical Event on 4/1/1989
Shridhar Madhav Joshi (S. M. Joshi), great socialist leader, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1989 | 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. |
| 9/17/1956 | Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established. |
| 5/4/1980 | Coal Mine Worker's Day established. |
| 5/28/1950 | Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 8/1/1932 | Meena Kumari, film actress, was born. |
| 7/8/1972 | Sourav Chandidas Ganguly, cricketer (centuries in 1st two Tests for India 1996), was born in Calcutta. |
| 7/20/1990 | GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore. |
| 2/13/1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London. |
| 12/19/1917 | Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born. |
| 9/25/1990 | Prafull Chandra Sen, former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Gandhian leader, died in Calcutta. He was 94 years old. |
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