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Historical Event on 1/1/1918

Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1997Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme `97 (VDIS) comes into effect.
10/3/1996National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory.
10/13/1998Salman Khan, Hindi film actor who was arrested on charges of killing protected wild animals near Jodhpur, is remanded to the custody of the Forest department.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
1/19/1995Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson.
8/10/1758Marathas won the Atak.
5/2/1908Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.
1/14/1998The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh come together for a three-nation business summit in Dhaka.
9/7/2000The Election Commission de-recognises the Lok Shakti, headed by former Union Minister Ramakrishna Hegde, as a state party on the basis of its performance in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in 1999.