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Historical Event on 4/9/1974

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh reach pact to exchange prisoners of 1971 war in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/4/1926Dalai Lama introduces a tax on ears for Tibetans to equip the army. Those with only one ear will pay half the tax.
11/30/1982World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi.
5/6/1993Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled.
10/2/1994Five die of pneumonic plague in Delhi. Surat toll rose to 47.
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
12/17/1978Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died.
11/27/1984Percy Norris, British Deputy High Commissioner in Bombay, assassinated in Bombay.
8/13/1956National Highways Act was approved by the Parliament of India.
12/26/1989The Constitution 62nd Amendment Bill, seeking to extend reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Lok Sabha and state assemblies for another ten years, approved in Parliament.
4/4/1942Japanese Navy destroyed 3 British battleship to sink in the Bay of Bengal during the Second World War.