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Historical Event on 9/1/1998
Leaded petrol is banned in Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1998 | Akbar removed 'Jeziya' or toll-tax for his non-Muslim subjects. |
| 3/3/1997 | Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 11/11/1973 | India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi. |
| 6/21/1988 | Sikh activist bombers kill 30 in Amritsar. |
| 7/13/1929 | Jatindranath Das started fast strike. |
| 2/28/1712 | Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 10/26/1990 | V. Shantaram, veteran film producer, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, died at the age of 90 years in Bombay. |
| 8/25/1997 | Konkan Railway line in Goa, except for a short stretch between Pernem and Maharashtra border, becomes operational. |
| 2/10/1691 | Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta. |
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