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Historical Event on 4/18/1931

Lord Willingdon took over as the Viceroy of India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/19/1981Indira Gandhi,Prime Minister, inaugurated `Maharashtra Vidhanbhavan'.
11/20/1990Union Government asks Supreme Court to repeal the $470 million Bhopal Gas settlement order.
5/29/1991P.V. Narasimha Rao elected President of Congress (I).
8/18/1993The Transport Development Council decides to abolish Pathkar (entry tax) and increase the fee for national permit from Rs. 1500 to Rs. 5000.
5/25/1915Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.
3/6/1997Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) inaugurated in Mauritius.
1/19/1960Ramchandra Gopal (Dadasaheb Torne), famous film director, passed away.
1/28/1992Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away.
11/1/1967Old Punjab, after first partition in 1947, was again seperated into two new states of Punjab and Haryana on linguistic basis, and Chandigarh became a Union Territory.
11/1/1967Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.