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Historical Event on 7/28/1921
The All-India Congress Party votes to boycott a forthcoming visit by the Prince of Wales and urges a boycott of imported cloth.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/7/1950 | 81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected. |
| 6/13/1992 | Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached. |
| 12/26/1989 | India debars Bofors from future contracts until they come out clean. |
| 4/16/1976 | The govt. announces its new birth-control program to curb population growth. |
| 10/31/1999 | Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award. |
| 12/9/1994 | Gorprasad Ghosh, famous Orriya film actor, director and producer, passed away. |
| 9/18/1924 | Mahatma Gandhi was to fast for 21 days in despair of the recent riots between Muslims and Hindus. It was an expression of his 'unbearable hopelessnes'. ""Nothing I say or write,"" he said, ""can bring the two communities together."" Even as he spoke there were reports of further riots at Kohat, in which 20 Hindus and 11 Muslims were killed. Reservations, Gandhi speaking in Allahabad said, reserved the right to drink water with or without salt. ""It is both a penance and a prayer. As it is penance I need not have taken the public into my confidence but I publish it as, let me hope, an effective prayer to Hindus and Muslims, not to commit suicide"". |
| 12/28/1885 | Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee. |
| 1/26/1992 | BJP President Dr. Murali Manohar Joshi hoists the national flag at the heavily-guarded Lal Chowk in Srinagar. |
| 9/22/1994 | G. N. Joshi, famous singer, died. |
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