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Historical Event on 2/4/1974
Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.
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| 4/3/1966 | First Indian-made computer commissioned in Jadavpur University campus. |
| 10/26/1937 | Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born. |
| 6/3/1818 | Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends. |
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