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Historical Event on 4/1/1969

India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1901Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala.
9/6/2000Telecom workers launch a nation-wide strike in protest against inadequate safeguards prior to the corporatisation of the department from October 1.
1/12/1993Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested.
8/15/1942Mahadev Haribhai Desai, an activist and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary, died of heart failure at Aga Khan's Palace.
5/1/1995SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.
5/22/1940Erapalli Anantrao Srinivasarao Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners, Right-arm Off-break Bowler), was born at Bangalore. He is also the receipent of Arjun Award (1968) and Padmashree (1970).
6/6/1867Baba Kharak Singh, freedom fighter, was born at Sialkot.
4/6/1773James Mill of Scotland, great philosopher and historian (British India), was born.
4/14/1919Gandhiji confesses at Nadiad his ""Himalayan Miscalculation"" regarding satyagraha martial law declared in Punjab.
10/10/1996UP polls throw up a hung assembly.