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Historical Event on 10/4/1907

Riots in Calcutta.

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11/20/1907Railroad workers strike in India.
3/4/1925Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away.
10/26/1952Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .
2/25/1970Mannathu Padmanabhan, great social worker and president of the Tranvancore Devasworn Board, passed away.
1/9/1972In 1971, 433 feature films produced in the world with a record and a top position in film production.
1/2/1973General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw appointed as Field Marshall.
2/3/1929The ""Times of India Illustrated Weekly"" was renamed as ""The Illustrated Weekly of India"".
2/3/1929Admiral Dom Vasco-da-Gama (c.1469-1524)-I, Count of Vidigueira, met the Jamerin of Calicut after arriving in India three days ago at Malabar Coast. He was joined by an experienced Gujarati pilot at Malindi. He was the 6th Governor and 2nd Viceroy of India.
1/29/1853Madhusudan Rao, modern writer in Oria language, was born.
12/16/1999Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin).