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Historical Event on 4/30/1992

Import duty on gold halved; minor concessions in direct taxes.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1989The 4th annual SAARC summit concludes in Islamabad.
11/16/199160 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states.
4/4/1947San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India.
9/30/1981Pakistan Commando soldiers release 66 hostages in Lahore from five Khalistan hijackers and activists of the Dal Khalsa International.
4/8/1937R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born.
9/21/1857Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops.
11/5/1976Lok Sabha votes to extend its own life by another year.
12/10/1952World's first official Family Planning programme launched in India.
5/28/1978The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.
4/11/2000Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'.