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Historical Event on 3/15/1904
Annada Shankar Rai, modern Oria and Bengali poet, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/23/1993 | Motilal Vohra made governor of UP. |
| 7/7/1855 | As many as 30,000, people went to Calcutta alongwith weapons to fight the British army. |
| 2/2/1862 | Pandit Shambhunath was the first Indian to become Judge of Indian High Court. |
| 1/12/1949 | Tej Bahadur Saproo, liberal leader, passed away. He was a strong believer in constitution and not in revolutions. |
| 6/18/1879 | Venketeshwar Bachhali, famous physics scientist, was born. |
| 10/18/1861 | Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, historian and researcher, was born. |
| 3/27/1990 | A 10-member Progressive Democratic Front Ministry led by Churchill Alemao sworn in Goa. |
| 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. |
| 10/11/1968 | Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj passed away. (Samadhee) |
| 1/27/1970 | Probir Sen, cricketer, 20 catches & 11 stumpings and 14 Tests for India, passed away. |
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