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Historical Event on 4/4/1947
San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/11/1987 | Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 7/1/1955 | S. P. Kampani, was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 18-07-1957. |
| 9/24/1938 | Piloo Dara Reporter, cricket test umpire for 10 tests from 1984-87, was born in Mumbai. He was the first ever test umpire to be invited in a foreign country along with V. K. Ramaswamy also of India. |
| 10/11/1894 | Sudhirranjan Das, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 2/11/1959 | Vinoo Mankad plays his final Test Cricket (vs West Indies at Delhi). |
| 1/26/1931 | Gandhiji was unconditionally released from prison. |
| 10/23/1996 | Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. |
| 5/5/1977 | Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party. |
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