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Historical Event on 9/14/1933
Gandhi declares one-year moratorium on civil disobedience in India.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/14/1955 | Employees' State Insurance Corporation was inaugurated by the President. |
8/7/1980 | Mother Teresa visits the poor in Bronx at New York. |
10/2/1910 | Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born. |
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 | Ibrahim Lodi (1517-26) succeeded the throne of Delhi, after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. |
11/10/1989 | Foundation stone laid for the Ram Janambhoomi temple at Ayodhya. |
12/15/1965 | Maharastra State Agriculture Industry Development Corporation established. |
4/9/1695 | Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav. |
11/30/1920 | N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born. |
7/9/1995 | 17 Indian mountaineers peaked Jogambha in the Garhwal Himalayas. |
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