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Historical Event on 4/2/1953

Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/21/1974Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam.
12/10/1952World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India.
11/16/1995The Pension scheme ordinance for 18 million Provident Fund subscribers takes effect with an initial corpus of Rs. 85.00 billion.
5/20/1940Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.
1/1/1992This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Space Year"".
4/3/1932Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.
6/18/1995The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi.
1/20/1994Chinese film 'Farewell, My Concubine' and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 'Vidheyan' adjudged best Foreign and Indian films in the 25th International Film Festival at Calcutta.
1/6/1953Stalin Peace Prize awarded to Dr. S. Kitchlew.
11/5/1996United Front suffers a setback with one of its constituents, the Madhya Pradesh Vikas party, deciding to walk out and merge with Congress (I).