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Historical Event on 4/1/1978

India's sixth Five-Year Plan commenced.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1978Pedro Cabral departs from Pourtugol with 13 ships to India.
1/1/1999This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of Elderly"".
6/1/1996H.D. Deve Gowda's 21-member Central cabinet sworn in.
9/19/1996Suresh Mehta ministry is dismissed, President's rule imposed.
2/16/1993Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
3/29/1996SC asks All India Indira Congress to modify its name as All Indira Congress (Tiwari).
11/20/1998Dr. Mohammed Yunus, Chairman of the Grameen Bank of Dhaka, is selected for the 1998 Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
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.
2/12/1928Bardoli Satyagrah (Gujarat) was led by Vallabhbhai Patel against the Bombay government's decision to hike the revenue on cotton by 22 percent while its prices declined Internationally. Ultimately the govenment quashed the hike.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.