On This Day
4 April
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1889 Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi, poet, writer, essayist, playwright and a journalist, was born. He is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad, the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi literature.
- 1905 An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude occurred in the Kangra Valley and the Kangra region of the Punjab Province (modern day Himachal Pradesh) in which more than 20,000 lives were lost.
- 1938 P Valsala, Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and social activist from Kerala, was born. She is a recipient of Ezhuthachan Puraskaram 2021, the highest literary honour by Government of Kerala.
- 1987 Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (Agyeya), writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language, died. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction, criticism and journalism. He is regarded as the pioneer of the Prayogavaad (experimentalism) movements in modern Hindi literature.
- 2000 532 rebels of the United Liberation Front of Assam turned in their weapons and gave up their struggle for independence.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician, inventor of logarithms, died.
- 1968 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, 39, was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
- 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen establish Microsoft, which has developed into a multinational corporation, and is the world's largest software maker by revenue.
- 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, former President of Pakistan who had been deposed by a coup d'etat, was executed despite international calls for clemency.
- 1983 Sally Ride became the first US woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
- 2006 Saddam Hussein, who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003, was charged with genocide.
- ⭐ Significance
- International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action aims to raise awareness about landmines and progress toward their eradication.
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