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Historical Event on 12/27/1901
Gandhiji moves resolution on South Africa at Congress.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/8/2000 | Bomb blasts rock churches in three states (A.P, Karnataka and Goa). |
| 12/3/1999 | Bhopal gas victims take out rallies to mark the 15th anniversary of the tragedy. |
| 9/20/1944 | Rameshchandra Saxena, a one Test batsman (India vs England 1967), was born in Delhi. |
| 4/23/1992 | Satyajit Ray, internationally famous Indian film producer-director, Bharat Ratna Awardee, passed away at the age of 70. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 1/4/1932 | Chandbibi made treaty with Murad and gave 'Varhad' area to Mughals. |
| 3/28/1914 | Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement. |
| 9/4/1990 | Congress (I) opposes the Prasar Bharati Bill in the Rajya Sabha saying the party wants the bill to be sent to a select committee. |
| 10/5/1907 | British MP Keir Hardie reported fomenting rebellion in India. |
| 5/23/1931 | Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born. |
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