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Historical Event on 4/1/1978
India's sixth Five-Year Plan commenced.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/15/1993 | K.M. Cariappa, field marshal and Major General, passed away at the age of 93. |
| 1/1/1987 | United Nations General Assembly announced this year to be observed as the ""International Year of Shelter for the Homeless"". (5-10-87). |
| 3/9/1858 | Bahadurshah Jafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was deported to Rangoon under the offence for rising of first Indian Mutiny in 1857. |
| 8/16/1991 | C. Achuta Menon, former CM of Kerala, passed away. |
| 1/17/1905 | Dattaraya Ramchandra Kaprekar was born at Dahanu near Bombay. He discovered the shortest possible routes to solve mathematical problems. In 1927, he won the wrangler R. P. Paranjpe Mathematical Prize for an Original Piece of work in mathematics. He discovered 'Kaprekar Constant' in 1946. It is the number ""6174"". The constant 6174 is arrived at and this number then generates itself into one set of numbers called ""self numbers"" that is also known by his name. Kaprekar passed away in 1988. |
| 4/18/1992 | Russia suspends transfer of rocket technology to India. |
| 1/1/1900 | Doordrahsan was started.
Doordarshan is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, which is owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and is one of two divisions of Prasar Bharati. |
| 11/27/1946 | London announces parley on India; Muslims accept, Hindus decline. |
| 9/6/1965 | Full scale warfare broke out all along the international border between West Pakistan and India. Pakistani troops advanced towards the Indian town of Akhnur in Kashmir and Pakistani paratroopers raided Punjab. |
| 4/16/1930 | Baba Kanshi Ram, freedom fighter and social reformer, was arrested by British police. |
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