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Historical Event on 1/30/1947
Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1976 | The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth. |
| 3/1/1995 | Iftikar, famous character actor, died. |
| 12/12/1905 | Mulkraj Anand, Indo-Anglian novelist and critic of international repute, was born in Peshawar, Pakistan. |
| 1/1/1966 | Vimal Roy, film maker and producer, passed away. |
| 9/29/1997 | Crown Prince of Spain, Felipe de Borbon, visits India. |
| 3/12/1941 | Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India. |
| 12/25/1932 | King George V's chair collapsed during his Christmas dinner speech. |
| 6/25/1888 | Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born. |
| 7/16/1856 | Ishwar Chand Vidyasagar, on the request of Governor Lord Canning, instituted a law announcing the right of Hindu widows for re-marriage. |
| 3/18/1953 | Backward Classes Commission inaugurated. |
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