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Historical Event on 4/8/1946
HMS Vengeance, sailed with 22 aircraft of No. 4 Sqn, halted at Singapore for re-fueling and set course for Iwakuni, a port of Kyushu island.
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| 10/2/2000 | Mukesh Kumar, India hockey player, retires from international hockey. |
| 3/9/1961 | Kotamaraju Rama Rao, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 12/8/1999 | Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999. |
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| 3/12/1988 | Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away. |
| 12/13/1902 | Ilachandra Joshi, famous Hindi novelist, story writer, critic and journalist, was born. |
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