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Historical Event on 1/7/1900
Raghukul Tilak, educationist and social worker, was born at Meerut, UP.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/28/1883 | Shivprasad Gupta, social reformer, politician, leader, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, was born at Varanasi. |
| 1/31/1961 | Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, first Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away. |
| 10/2/1994 | Five die of pneumonic plague in Delhi. Surat toll rose to 47. |
| 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. |
| 1/30/1968 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer and President of All India, passed away. |
| 4/8/1857 | Mangal Pandey, the first revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, was hanged till death at Barrackpore. He struck the first bullet during the time of mutiny against the British Empire. |
| 1/5/1992 | Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wkt. |
| 11/8/1932 | Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi. |
| 6/18/1995 | The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi. |
| 9/29/1977 | India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water. |
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