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Historical Event on 9/15/1903

Wazir Syed Ali, right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler, was born at Jalandhar.

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11/9/1710Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized.
8/2/1942Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.
3/12/1930Mahatma 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.
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7/25/1988Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
10/6/1935Jeevan D. Ghosh, cricket Test umpire from 1978-91, was born in Bengal. He has the distinction of having the longest umpiring career of 32 years in India.