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Historical Event on 1/5/1985
Rajiv Gandhi promises to solve the Punjab problem without yielding to 'separatist ideologies.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1891 | Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created. |
| 7/19/1993 | Girilal Jain, senior journalist, passed away. |
| 7/20/1903 | British to increase size of Royal Army in India. |
| 10/9/1976 | International Dialing Telephone Service started between Mumbai and London. |
| 8/13/1936 | Madam Bhikaji Rustom Cama, freedom fighter, Indian lady revolutionary and politician, passed away at Bombay. |
| 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"". |
| 12/14/1953 | Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born. |
| 9/13/1965 | Pakistanis bomb Bombay. |
| 10/20/1947 | First battle between India and Pakistan. |
| 11/13/1922 | Mahadev Sadashivrao Ande, freedom fighter and political leader, was born. |
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