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Historical Event on 1/29/1948
Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.

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5/29/1936	Gandhi's eldest son creates a controversy as he converts to the Muslim faith.
5/29/1936	Akbar attacked on Malwa at Sarangpur and defeated Bajbahadar.
5/29/1936	Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
11/24/1997	Leander-Mahesh stumble at the final step, finish second in the World doubles tennis championships at Hartford.
6/10/1997	Three Indians - Kumaramangalam Birla, Ratan Tata and Dhirubhai Ambani - figure in the list of Asia's top 100 super rich.
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.
5/5/1971	India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi.
11/5/1961	Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrived in New York. This was the first ocassion when an Indian Prime Minister went to United States.
12/19/1978	The Lok Sabha expels Indira Gandhi from the House and sentences her to imprisonment for a term lasting its prorogation. She was released from jail on December 26.
7/21/1963	Kashi Vidyapeeth was given recognisation as University.

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Historical Event on 1/29/1948 Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.

Historical Event on 1/29/1948
Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas.