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Historical Event on 10/4/1972

Raman Vijayan, Indian soccer (Football) player, was born in Kandramanikam at Pasumpon, Tamil Nadu.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/13/1991PM Rao leaves for Harare to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.
11/7/1975Indian Supreme Court validates election of Indira Gandhi at New Delhi.
2/18/1993Congress (I) secures absolute majority in Nagaland and emerges as the single largest party in Meghalaya.
3/1/1917Kartar Singh Duggal, famous author, was born at Dhamyal, Pakistan.
5/17/1996Four members (Sange Sherpa, Hira Ram, Tashi Ram, Nadre Sherpa) of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition climb Mount Everest from the Chinese side.
4/3/1999Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation.
1/9/1971Muslim leader Sheik Mohammed Abdullah was barred from returning to Kashmir.
8/8/1949India concludes a treaty with Bhutan.
12/23/1983Micheal Chopra, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Newcastle, England.
6/28/1972Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis died. He was the first founder of Indian statistical Institute to receive world recognition. In 1958, he started his national sample surveys. A Sample survey means assessing a situation by studying a part of it which would represent the whole, some of his proposals were included in the second five year paln. His original work made him elected as fellow of the Royal society in 1945.