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Historical Event on 4/18/1959

Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/18/1926Naranjan Bhagat, famous Gujrathi poet, was born.
7/29/1980India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics.
5/13/1952Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru again becomes the Prime Minister of India and forms a new union ministry.
11/6/1946Gandhiji leaves for Noakhali; issues statement on ""Partial Fast"". Noakhali tour beg
10/17/19037th Madras Infantry was re-established as 67th Punjabi Infantary.
7/9/1969Sagi Lakshmi Venkatapathy Raju, cricketer (Indian slow left-armer), was born in Hyderabad.
12/17/1978Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died.
4/5/1987The centenary of Bombay Fire Brigade was celebrated. (CIVIC).
2/10/1990Saroj Mukherjee, WB's CPI(M) secretary, died.
10/16/1905Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement.