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Historical Event on 4/1/1930
Government announced 15 yrs and 18 yrs as minimum marriageable age for girls and boys. This is presently remodified.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/5/1994 | Shakti Singh at Bangalore sets record for DT in 61.72. |
| 10/22/2000 | The Supreme Court, in a significant order, erases Karnataka High Court judgement discharging former Chief Minister S. Bangarappa and his then private secretary R. Suribabu in a corruption case. |
| 12/13/1984 | The death toll in a toxic gas leak from an insecticide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100, and tens of thousands of residents fled the city today after it was announced that the Union Carbide plant would be started up again to neutralize the effect. |
| 5/21/1984 | Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay. |
| 6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
| 6/5/1975 | Ramsing, great freedom fighter and editor of `Navyug Patrika', passed away. |
| 3/21/1934 | Buta Singh, former Home Minister of India, was born. |
| 11/11/1906 | Chetput Ramaswami Pattabhi Raman, politician and social worker, was born at Madras. |
| 5/18/1955 | Hindu Marriage Act is amended. |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"". |
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