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Historical Event on 4/30/1998
Sukh Ram, former Union Minister, decides to resign as a Minister in the Himachal Pradesh Government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/15/1975 | India recognises the Sihanouk Government in Cambodia. |
| 8/8/2000 | The Government appoints Air Marshal P. Rajkumar to head the court of enquiry to probe the Alliance Air crash near Patna. |
| 11/13/1991 | Supreme Court orders establishment of an all-India judicial service. |
| 5/3/1997 | Vijay Pradhan, additional senior counsel for Srikrishna Commission probing 1992-93 riots in Mumbai, resigns. He is not allowed to cross-examine Chief Minister Manohar Joshi. |
| 4/1/1956 | Companies Act of 1913 was revised and Indian Companies Act of 1956 came into force. |
| 3/3/1997 | Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 11/16/1908 | Bommi Narsingh Reddy, famous film story writer, was born. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 4/4/1905 | More than 10,000 people are feared to have perished in an earthquake that hit the northeast Indian province of Lahore during the night. The town of Dharmsala was almost completely razed to the ground with the entire population rendered homeless and sleeping out in icy conditions. Five hundred Gurkha soldiers were buried alive when their stonebuilt barracks collapsed on them. The towns of Kangra and Palampur have also been leveled to the ground by the worst natural disaster measured at 8 on Ricter Scale. In Lahore, 70 Hindus were killed, Muslim inhabitants were parading in the streets, weeping and offering up prayers with ceremonial rites. Several British administrators and missionaries were known to have been killed or injured. At Simla, Lady Curzon, wife of the Viceroy, had a close escape from death when a chimney crashed into the room in which she was sleeping. |
| 10/30/1947 | The government rejects Kashmir's decision to join India in Pakistan. |
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