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Historical Event on 4/1/1997
Govt. clarifies it is illegal to carry a child on a two-wheeler in addition to a pillion rider.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/5/1929 | Narottam Morarjee, great social reformer and the architect of the modern Indian Shipping, died. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 9/8/1887 | Swami Sivananda, (1887-1963), religious leader, Hindu universalist renaissance guru, author of 200 books and founder of Divine Life Society with 400 branches worldwide, was born in the quiet village of Pattamadai, District Tirunelveli. |
| 11/18/1988 | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit. |
| 2/2/1917 | Maharshi Vinayak Ramchandra Patwardhan (Annasaheb), collegue of Lokmanya Tilak, passed away. |
| 5/21/1990 | PM V. P. Singh clears the Rs. 13,000 crore Sardar Sarovar Project over the river Narmada. |
| 11/15/1949 | Nathuram Vinayak Godse and Narayan Dattatreya Apte were hanged in Ambala Jail for Gandhi's murder. |
| 2/10/1982 | K. R. Meher-Homji, cricket wicket keeper (one Test, one catch, no stumps), passed away. |
| 12/17/1645 | Noorjahan Begum passed away. |
| 6/21/1814 | Gilbert Aliat Minto, Governor General of East Indian Company, died. |
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