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Historical Event on 1/4/1998

V.D.I.S. nets Rs.10,500 crores with Rs 33,000 crore black money disclosed in 4,66,031 declarations made.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/3/1984Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated.
4/22/1983Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85.
10/1/1904Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar "A.K.Gopalan" was born in Cannanore district, north Kerala. He was a freedom fighter and leader of communist movement in Keral
6/9/1991Raj Khosla, famous film producer and director, passed away.
11/22/1872Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England.
12/13/1991Justice M. H Kania of Maharashtra sworn in as the 23rd Chief Justice of India.
12/1/1963Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian union.
2/18/1975Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), passed away.
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.
9/29/1755Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India