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Historical Event on 12/30/1974
Opening of the fifth Indian Film Festival. It was presided over by Satyajit Ray at New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/27/1978 | Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland. |
| 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. |
| 3/22/1902 | Great Britain and Persia agree to link Europe and India by telegraph. |
| 8/17/1761 | William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people. |
| 12/1/1932 | A round-table conference on India fails to reach an agreement at London. |
| 12/1/1932 | Shrichakradhar Swami, founder of 'Mahanubhav Panth', passed away. |
| 7/14/1856 | Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, great social worker, was born. |
| 11/3/1948 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, delivered his maiden speech in United Nations Organisation (U.N.O.) General Assembly. |
| 1/2/1994 | Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections. |
| 3/31/1994 | The Supreme Court orders closure of 11 industrial units around Taj Mahal. |
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