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Historical Event on 4/18/1931
Lord Willingdon took over as the Viceroy of India.
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| 10/1/1886 | Baluchisthan became a part of India. |
| 3/6/1990 | India wins Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament. |
| 6/27/1839 | Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ruler of Punjab and Spiritual Guru of sikh community, passed away. |
| 6/29/1901 | Amal Kumar Sarkar, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 10/9/2000 | The Centre appoints Yogendra Narain as the new defence secretary and K. Sibal as the secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs while effecting a major bureaucratic reshuffle. |
| 10/23/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN. |
| 2/11/1997 | NHRC recommends to Central Government measures to prevent government servants from employing children below 14 as domestic servants. |
| 8/8/1923 | Floods on the Ganges and Jumna rivers cause loss of life in Benares, India. |
| 5/16/1996 | Atal Krishna Behari Vajpayee, leader of Bharatiya Janta Party, becomes the 10th Prime Minister for 13 days (from May 16, 1996 to May 28, 1996 [techinally till 01-06-1996]), although his ability to govern effectively is in doubt. |
| 9/26/1820 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (Banerji), great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur, father of Bengali prose and who gave the Bengalees their first Primer in 1855, was born in the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal. |
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