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Historical Event on 4/10/1982

Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna started by Indira Gandhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
9/30/1943Ramanand Chattopadhyay, famous author and journalist, died.
2/27/1987UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar recieved the Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding.
10/23/1996Amjad Ali Khan, sarod maestro, appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children.
2/10/1930Shrikant Kirloskar, director of 'Kirloskar Udyog Samuh', was born.
6/21/1941Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India.
3/26/1992Accord with Bangladesh on Tin Bigha.
7/19/2000The Centre has no locus standi in Thackeray case, says the Prime Minister and rejects the resignations of Shiv Sena nominees in the Union Cabinet-- Manohar Joshi, Suresh Prabhu and Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil.
3/28/1916Ramkrishna Pillai, journalist and social reformer, passed away.
12/10/1761Maharani Tarabai of Pune died at Satara.(9 or 10).