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Historical Event on 4/18/1917
Gandhi saw one of his testing grounds of Satyagraha in Champaran. He defied section 144 of Criminal Act.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/22/1997 | Govt. issues notification saying that Prasar Bharati Act, 1990 would come into force from Sept. 15. |
| 5/14/1978 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away. |
| 4/6/1664 | Harkhishan Singh, Sikh Guru, died. |
| 7/14/1992 | The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K. |
| 10/18/1983 | Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer 55 Tests for India, 3208 runs @ 39.12, died. |
| 11/21/1992 | 27 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam. |
| 7/30/1920 | Rikhye Maj-Gen Indar Jit, Educationist and Former Army Officer, was born at Lahore. |
| 6/23/1980 | Sanjay Gandhi, great Indian politician and younger son of Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash. He was recently appointed as the General Secretary of the AICC (I). |
| 10/2/1939 | Budhisagar Krishnappa Kunderan, cricketer (Indian keeper-batsman of 60's), was born in Mangalore. |
| 11/10/1848 | Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
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