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Historical Event on 5/27/1930

Jayaprakash Narayan, Labour Research Cell, arrested after Dandi March.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1966U.S. resumes full economic aid to India and Pakistan.
12/9/1873Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation stone of the building.
12/9/1873Babur won the first Panipat battle and entered in North India's capital Agra.
9/8/1972Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich.
1/1/1988On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.
3/23/1942Second World War was turning against the British and they needed the help of the Indians. So Prime Minister Churhill sent a delegation under Sir Stafford Cripps (Cripps Mission) to hold talks with the Indian leaders on the future of the subcontient in UK, which could not take place because of the non-cooperation movement and they left after a fortnight. They submitted their report in April 1942 which was rejected by the Congress and Muslim League.
6/4/1955Ministry of Iron & Steel inaugurated.
5/28/1930Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing.
1/10/1987Sikh terrorists murder Punjab prison chief in Chandigarh.
8/15/1947India gains independence from the British rule and Pakistan emerges as a separate Islamic nation. Around 600,000 die in clashes during the subsequent population exchange of 14 million people between the two new countries.