-EVENT- Date 2nd Apr 1970 Expired! Time ... 55 Years ago Meghalaya emerged as an autonomous State. On April 2nd 1970, Meghalaya emerged as an autonomous state within Assam, and later gained full statehood on January 21, 1972, following a decade-long peaceful constitutional movement. Labels -EVENT- Tags: autonomous district in meghalaya, meghalaya airport, meghalaya and tripura became full states, meghalaya attained autonomous state status in the year, meghalaya autonomous state, meghalaya autonomous state amendment, meghalaya became autonomous state, meghalaya capital, meghalaya cm, meghalaya in india map, meghalaya lottery, meghalaya temperature, meghalaya tour package, meghalaya tourism, meghalaya tourist places, meghalaya weather, states of meghalaya