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Historical Event on 1/4/1958

Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount and Governor of Bengal, died at the age of 75.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/9/1752French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly, India.
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).
7/29/1979Choudhary Charan Singh was sworn in as the fifth Prime Minister of India heading the Janata (S)-Congress coalition. He held this office till January 14, 1980. Jagjivan Ram became the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
6/1/1972Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS).
6/19/1996Kerala LDF govt. decides to reopen the ISRO espionage case, which was closed by the CBI.
6/24/1989A majority of opposition members in the Lok Sabha resign on the issue of CAG report on the Bofors gun deal.
12/6/1997Nine persons killed and over 60 injured in bomb blasts in three trains which left Chennai. Blasts occurred in Tiruchi, Erode (Tamil Nadu) and Trissur in Kerala.
5/3/1997Vijay Pradhan, additional senior counsel for Srikrishna Commission probing 1992-93 riots in Mumbai, resigns. He is not allowed to cross-examine Chief Minister Manohar Joshi.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.