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Historical Event on 6/4/1997

Fourth Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1D), carring advanced remote sensing cameras launched by India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-1D), in service.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
7/25/1995India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
6/7/1979Bhaskara-I, first experimental satellite for Earth resources/meteorology remote sensing and the Second Satellite of India, launched. This satellite carried TV and microwave cameras. It was launched by Russian launch vehicle 'Intercosmos'.
6/3/1818Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends.
2/28/1930Strike by workers of the Nizam state railways over bonus.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
6/5/1974Smallpox epidemic in the country.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
5/2/1996Pedro Cabral departs from Pourtugol with 13 ships to India.
11/19/1910Gohar alias Gohar A. Kayoum Mamajiwala was born at Lahore. She was a film actress. Her first film was 'Fortune & Fools' (1925). Other films were 'Lanka Ni Laadi', 'Handsome', 'Briefless Barrister', 'Thief of Delhi', 'Punjab Mail', 'My Darling' and 'The Web'.