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Historical Event on 4/2/1970
Meghalaya, an autonomous hilly state, was established after dividing the hilly areas of Assam.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1906 | Pulavar Kulandai, great author and poet, was born at Bhavani. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 4/21/1946 | Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, cricket (Indian off-spinner, Test umpire, ICC referee), was born in Madras. He received Arjun Award (1971). |
| 4/30/1992 | Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes. |
| 5/28/1964 | A slow-moving funeral cortege containing the body of Jawaharlal Nehru inched through the streets of New Delhi today. A million and a half Indians lined the route to pay final respects to their beloved leader. |
| 12/23/1900 | Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born. |
| 11/24/1991 | Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections. |
| 1/5/1952 | U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for economic development in New Delhi. |
| 1/18/1994 | Narasimha Rao decides to retain Veerappa Moily as Karnataka CM. |
| 1/12/1990 | Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht retain National badminton titles. |
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