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Historical Event on 12/4/1924
Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/3/1857 | Queen Victoria declared as Queen of India also. |
| 10/15/1915 | Dr. I. Gopalkrishnan, Cricket Test Umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/20/1995 | Supreme Court orders closure of 84 industries in and around Taj Mahal in UP due to pollution. |
| 2/12/2000 | 17 persons, including 12 police personnel, die as naxalites strike terror during the first phase of polling for the Bihar Assembly. |
| 10/10/1996 | UP polls throw up a hung assembly. |
| 2/3/1873 | Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 3/18/1972 | First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi. |
| 7/31/1880 | Nawab Rai\Dhanpat Rai, 'Prem Chand', great litterateur, writer, editor, journalist and headmaster, was born at Lamahi village near Varanasi, UP. |
| 9/9/1947 | Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great philosopher, linguist, art historian, painter and critic, died at Needham, Boston. |
| 6/17/1991 | Prabhakar Machve, famous litterateur, passed away. |
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