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Historical Event on 04/07/1541
Father Francis Xavier, Spanish founder of the Jesuits, 35, and three friends set sail from Lisbon, Portugal for Goa. They became the first Roman Catholic missionaries to travel to India.
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| 2/20/1929 | K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/25/1890 | Radheshyam, famous stage, film actor and director, was born. |
| 4/18/1917 | Gandhi saw one of his testing grounds of Satyagraha in Champaran. He defied section 144 of Criminal Act. |
| 2/24/1994 | Sharp increase in freight rates in the 1994-95 Railway budget; Pre-budget Economic Survey puts GDP growth in 1993-94 at 3.8\%. |
| 9/1/1999 | Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi. |
| 4/6/1942 | During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam. |
| 6/10/1928 | Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai. |
| 4/27/1942 | Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India. |
| 8/3/1995 | Enron Power Project scrapped by Maharashtra government. |
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