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Historical Event on 3/18/1919

Rowlatt Act, intended to perpetuate the extraordinary powers enjoyed by the Government under Lord Chelmsford during the war, provokes countrywide protests. This Rowlatt Act was forced instead of 1915 Indian Security Act which reduced freedom of Indian people.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/21/1788Sindhia arrested Gulam Qadir and killed him.
4/15/1946The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was erected near a village named Kangla Tongbi at Mile 8 on the Imphal - Dimapur road. It was originally erected from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
4/16/1959Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning.
5/15/1992CBI begins probe into the security scam.
1/1/1931Gopi Chand Narang, great educationist and Urdu scholar, was born at Dukki.
11/3/1992Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away.
12/10/1989Janardan Swami passed away.
1/31/1998D. R. Karthikeyan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/03/98).
11/1/1949Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India.