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Historical Event on 1/4/1958

Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount and Governor of Bengal, died at the age of 75.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/11/1824US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair.
10/5/1676East India company got authority from the King of England to mint Indian currencies 'Rupee and Paise' coins in Bombay.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
6/18/1946First Satyagraha movement was started for Goa liberation from the Portuguese.
9/16/1954The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent.
4/1/2000India wins four golds in the under-14 Youth chess championship in Teheran.
8/8/1967Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha.
12/14/199410 IAF personnel of the first batch were reinducted and the last batch left on 20th Dec 94. Cpl Nasir was left as a lying casualty due to injuries sustained in the RPG explosion.
5/10/1982Karnataka Kranti Ranga led by Devaraj Urs comes into being.
8/29/1993Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will.