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Historical Event on 6/4/1955

Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/2/1954Chandernagar, former under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal.
5/1/1999India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final.
2/19/1997Massive blowout in ONGC oil field at Devarapally, A.P.
12/15/1675Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded in Delhi by Aurangzeb for his refusal to embrace him.
7/5/1992Bahadur Prasad at London sets record for 3000m in 7.56.74.
5/23/1895Shivprasad Sitar-E-Hind passed away.
9/27/1760Mir Zafar was deposed and his son-in-law Mir Kasim became the Nawab of Bengal. He ruled till July 7, 1763.
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
2/1/194217 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees.
8/20/1955Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists.