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Historical Event on 4/1/1930
Government announced 15 yrs and 18 yrs as minimum marriageable age for girls and boys. This is presently remodified.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1935 | Harishankar Sharma, great educationist, was born at Jaipur. |
| 11/29/1928 | Krishnaji Narayan Aathaly, great Marathi litterateur and editor, passed away. |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 11/7/1900 | Ranga N.G, professor and politician, was born. |
| 7/4/1992 | Sanskrit made a compulsory subject from sixth to intermediate classes in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 3/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee is elected leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party. |
| 6/5/1997 | Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 3/1/1905 | Karmaveer Bhausaheb Hire was born. |
| 4/17/1926 | Chandrashekhar, eighth Prime Minister of India, was born. |
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