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Historical Event on 4/1/1918
Royal Air Force replaces Royal Flying Corps in Britain.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/10/1878 | Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'. |
| 4/26/1973 | Judge A.N. Ray became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 28/01/1977. |
| 6/25/1931 | Vishwanath Pratapsing, former Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 3/27/1845 | Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and first nobel prize winner, was born at Lennep, Germany. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 4/30/1909 | Sant Tukdoji Maharaj, great saint, patriot and social worker, was born at Yawali, district Amravati. |
| 6/13/1999 | The Indian army secures the strategic Tololing peak in the Dras sector. |
| 1/2/1994 | Warden's in Arambaug, India lead about a fifty hungry and bruised elephants into a forest for temporary shelter. After a week, the herd strayed from a santuary, stampeding villagers and terrorising peasants. |
| 2/1/1855 | East India Railways were held for formal inauguration; Howrah station was opened. |
| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
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