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Historical Event on 4/18/1959

India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1897Henrich Von Stephan, famous General Postal Union and freedom fighter, passed away.
12/31/1995K.P.S. Gill, DGP of Punjab, retires from service.
1/10/1912Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh.
10/2/1969Gandhi's birth centenary celebrated all over the country.
2/28/1928C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'.
12/1/1964Jawaharlal Nehru Agriculture University established.
1/30/1994Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
1/20/1988Shiv Charan Mathur sworn in as CM of Rajasthan.
11/13/1935Chandra Prakash Gupta, great educationist, was born at Gaini in UP.