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Historical Event on 1/4/1924

Vidyadhar Gokhle, editor, playwright and politician, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/15/1996Kashmiri militants and Central govt. hold talks on ending violence and to initiate the democratic process in J&K.
4/25/1906Dara Nusserwanji Marshall, librarian and educationist, was born.
6/30/1931June Thorburn, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore), was born in Kashmir, India.
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
5/30/1919Rabindranath Tagore returned back the honour as a protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
6/1/1959National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director.
6/1/1959Property Tax was passed.
8/4/1914Gandhiji reaches London and raised Indian Volunteer Corps.
4/18/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, constitutes a Group of Ministers to review the national security system in its entirety in the light of the recommendations of the Kargil review committee.
1/30/1949Night Airmail Services was inaugurated.