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Historical Event on 9/30/1961
Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit, occasional Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's), was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/27/1948 | Gandhiji visits Mehrauli Muslim Fair. |
| 6/3/1985 | The week comprising of five working days was implemented in Central Government Offices for its staff. |
| 6/3/1985 | Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni passed away in his capital. |
| 6/20/1939 | Ramakant Bhikaji Desai, cricketer - pace bowler for India in the 60s, was born in Bombay |
| 8/13/1956 | National Highways Act was approved by the Parliament of India. |
| 5/13/2000 | Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia. |
| 8/19/1907 | Acharya Hajariprasad Dwivedi was born. |
| 11/30/1989 | Congress (I) emerges largest party in Lok Sabha by winning 193 seats, Congress (I) rule in Karnataka and Veerendra Patil made the Chief Minister. |
| 12/29/1949 | Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras. |
| 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. |
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