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Historical Event on 4/2/1980
S. S. Grewal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-04-1981.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1980 | Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary, soldier and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 5/18/1912 | Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay. |
| 5/11/1985 | Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence. |
| 10/31/1990 | Religious clashes between Hindus and Muslims leave more than 180 people dead. |
| 9/20/1933 | Annie Besant, veteran freedom fighter for India, died. |
| 9/12/1932 | Vijaya Shriniwas Jahagirdas, famous Marathi story writer and poet, was born. |
| 9/15/1967 | Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died. |
| 2/24/2000 | The Subrahmanyam Committee report tabled in the Lok Sabha. The panel concluded that the Pakistan intrusion in Kargil took the Indian security establishment by surprise. |
| 5/7/2000 | Ranjit Singh Gill, one of the prime accused in the murder of Lalit Maken and his wife Geetanjali, who was the daughter of the late President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, on July 31, 1985, was extradited to Delhi from the US to stand trial in the case. |
| 9/5/1979 | Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma. |
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