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Historical Event on 12/4/1959

Power Project was signed betwen India and Nepal, an agreement on the Gandak Irrigation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
1/3/1952India adopted birth control program with aid of U.N. World Health Organization.
12/12/1989Air Chief Marshal (retd.) Arjan Singh named Delhi Lt. Governor.
11/6/1998Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah.
8/3/1998India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea.
1/30/1996Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard.
6/6/1907John Morley, U.K. Government State Secretary, declares ""it will not withdraw from India under any circumstances"".
9/28/1993Gas pipe below Karakas National Highway exploded claiming 58 lives.
8/15/1997K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.
1/1/1980This decade was announced to be observed as the ""International Decade of Water & Sanitation"".