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Historical Event on 4/3/1700
Sikandar, former sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/21/1996 | M.S. Sushama Dande (Shiv Sena) elected first woman mayor of New Mumbai along with Savitri Patil (Shiv Sena) as Deputy Mayor. |
| 7/15/1991 | Jagannathrao Joshi, veteran leader of Janata Party `Karnataka Kesri', died. |
| 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. |
| 1/31/1963 | Peacock declared as National Bird of India. |
| 2/28/1967 | General Election ( 4th) of India ends. |
| 11/27/1976 | Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away. |
| 5/2/1968 | Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 2/6/1966 | Madurai Kamraj University established. |
| 12/15/1965 | Third cyclone of the year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges river. |
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