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Historical Event on 1/25/1932
Rammanohar Vishnunarayan Tripathi, great social worker and political leader of Maharashtra, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/26/1874 | Sursingh Takhtsingh Gohil `Kalapi', famous Gujrati poet, was born. |
| 5/3/1947 | Indian National Trade Union Congress Intak was established. |
| 10/2/1957 | All India Scheduled Caste Federation formally dissolved and a new political party 'Republican Party of India' was formed. |
| 4/4/1999 | India routed China 5-0 in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I second round play-off in Calcutta. |
| 2/11/1996 | Nepal PM Sher Bahadur Deuba arrives in India for a week-long visit. |
| 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. |
| 10/23/1996 | Shankarsinh Waghela (Mahagujarat Janata party), new chief minister, sworn in at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. |
| 5/20/1900 | Sumitranandan Pant was born. |
| 11/3/2000 | BCCI suspends five cricketers -Mohammed Azaruddin, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Manoj Prabhakar--for a period of 15 days after the CBI report. |
| 11/9/1997 | Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide. |
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