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Historical Event on 4/5/1940

Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian Missionary, died in Calcutta. He is also referred as ""Deenabandhu Andrews"".

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/25/1945Lord Vevil talk to the Indian political leaders.
2/17/1976Urban Ceilings Act comes into force.
3/11/1984India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam.
3/1/1916Habib Rahman, great Architect, was born at Calcutta.
5/7/1973Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died.
10/30/1996Former PM Narasimha Rao appears before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate at the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi, as an accused in the St. Kitts forgery case.
1/29/1931Gandhiji sails for England as Congress delegate to Second Round Table Conference. This conference was attended by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Sarojini Naidu.
4/20/1989Launching of IRBM `Agni' fails.
8/7/1925Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986.
2/23/1952Employees Provident Fund Bill and Miscellaneous Provision Act passed in the Lok Sabha.