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Historical Event on 4/1/1978
India's sixth Five-Year Plan commenced.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1995 | TADA expires and new Anti-Terrorists Activities Law proposed. Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 1995, voting put off; Lok Sabha passes Finance Bill 1995. |
| 9/23/1862 | Sriniwas Shastri, great patriot and veteran politician, was born. |
| 5/23/1924 | Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 9/10/1912 | B. D. Jatti, former Vice President of India, was born. |
| 5/30/1962 | 69 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad. |
| 7/25/1987 | Giani Zail Singh (1916-1994) retired from the post of seventh President. |
| 3/21/1791 | Tipu Sultan capitulated to Lord Cornwallis. |
| 2/17/1992 | Tripura's Congress (I) ministry falls as TUJS withdraws support. |
| 9/15/1967 | Ramkrishnarao Burgula, Chief Minister of Hyderabad, died. |
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