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Historical Event on 4/18/1904
Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/26/1993 | Surajkund AICC okays dual posts for Narasimha Rao. |
| 8/12/1946 | Viceroy announces invitation to Congress to form provisional Government. |
| 11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
| 8/27/1976 | Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters. |
| 1/14/1761 | The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony. |
| 11/28/1956 | Chou En- lai, Chinese Prime Minister, came to India. |
| 3/1/1971 | General Election ( 5th) of India begins. |
| 2/16/1911 | Bhalchandra Gopal Bapat, newspaper editor and educationalist, was born. |
| 4/5/1950 | Spurred by recent clashes in East and West Bengal between Muslims and Hindus, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Pakistani couterpart Ali Khan today reached agreement on a ""Bill of Rights for Minorities"". This bill included a provision for ""drumhead justice,"" or summary justice to persons convicted of violating minority rights. |
| 4/5/1950 | Sheikh Mirza, chieftain of a small state of Ferghana, was born in Turkmenistan. |
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