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Historical Event on 4/18/1931
Lord Willingdon took over as the Viceroy of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/17/1830 | Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, died. |
| 1/18/1948 | Gandhi breaks 121-hour fast in New Delhi, after halting of Muslim-Hindu riots in Calcutta. He breaks the fast on security pledges from communal leaders who ""Peace Pledge"" to Gandhiji. |
| 3/3/1839 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
| 1/1/1879 | Edward M Forster, English novelist (Howards End, Passage to India), was born. |
| 1/22/1963 | The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun. |
| 11/19/1999 | New Governors for Bihar, West Bengal, Goa, Manipur and Punjab are named by the Rashtrapati Bhavan. |
| 8/8/1946 | India agrees to give Bhutan 32 miles. |
| 12/19/1945 | Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan. |
| 4/24/1918 | Durgaprasad Dhar, former Vice President of Planning Commission, was born. |
| 11/12/1946 | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya died at the age of 85. |
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