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Historical Event on 4/8/1946
HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island.
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| 11/6/1993 | First-ever elections to the Delhi Assembly. |
| 6/12/1990 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1D) launched. This is an operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was launched by US Delta launch vehicle, Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. |
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| 6/12/1894 | Busushottam Vishwanath Bapat, internationally famed Pali language expert, translator and editor, was born. |
| 9/24/1922 | Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah. |
| 10/17/1906 | Swami Ramtirtha, great social reformer and poet, died at the age of 33. |
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