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Historical Event on 7/4/1760

Meeran, Mir Jaffer's son, accidently died on the banks of Ganga near Patna due to lightning.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/30/1935Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK.
3/28/1954The flight undertook its first VVIP commitment, when it carried the first Prime Minister of India, the Late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, from Palam to Tilpat range and back to witness the 'Fire Power Demo'. It carried wide spectrum of VVIPs, including the President, the Prime Minister, renowned statesmen, Generals, Luminaries and visiting foreign dignitaries.
3/28/1954Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born.
9/1/1999Dr. S. Srinivasan (58), Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Thiruvananthapuram, died.
2/12/1985Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.
6/26/1906M.P. Sivagnanam, famous Tamil writer and social worker, was born at Madras.
2/17/1976Urban Ceilings Act comes into force.
11/6/1946P. S. Shivswami Iyyer, great politician and administrator, passed away.
10/14/1955Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia .
10/21/1997RBI de-regulates deposit rates, reduces CRR and Bank Rate (from 10\% to 9) and allows banks to have two sets of Prime Lending Rates.