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Historical Event on 2/4/1990
Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/25/1963 | Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away. |
| 4/10/1997 | Announcement of UP's 70th new district to be re-named after Jyotiba Phule. |
| 9/10/1915 | Jatindranath Mukhrjee, great revolutionary, died after being wounded in a pitched battle between the revolutionaries and the police, aided by an army unit, in Balasore. |
| 9/16/1990 | Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War. |
| 8/11/1911 | Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born. |
| 2/20/2000 | India-born Mr. Ujjal Dosanjh (52), leader of New Democratic Party, sworn in Canada's first Indo-Canadian Premier of British Columbia. |
| 8/19/1934 | Dr. Hiralal died. He was a distinguished historian and contributed numerous articles to 'Indian Antiquary', 'Epigraphia Indica', The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, etc. He was also an honorary correspondent in Archaeology to the Government of India. |
| 3/11/1824 | US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair. |
| 9/29/1725 | Robert Clive, one of the founders of British empire in India and diplomat, was born. |
| 2/22/1905 | Purushotamsing Bajaj, industrialist and social worker, was born at Shikarpur (Sind). |
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