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Historical Event on 4/18/1930

Surya Sen alias Masterda attacked on Armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/9/1994Kamal Bose, great photographer, died.
10/1/1958Metric System of weights was introduced in India.
9/20/1942Kanak Lata Barua, a yound child who tried to host the national flag at Goupur police station in Assam with the help of 500 people, was shot by the police station incharge.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
5/27/1991Justice J.S. Verma of the Supreme Court appointed to probe into Rajiv Gandhi murder case.
11/12/1990Uttar Pradesh Government raises the reservation for Backward Classes in direct recruitment to State Services from 15 to 27 per cent.
8/16/1901Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born.
8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
1/12/2000Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.