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Historical Event on 2/13/1922
The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
8/11/2000 | Usha Mehta, great Gandhian, passed away. |
9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
9/29/2000 | India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics. |
12/25/1995 | First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras. |
8/1/1970 | Former Beatle George Harrison led an all-star entourage of rock talent through two sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden tonight, in a benefit for Bangladesh refugees. More than 40,000 attended the concerts, and Harrison hoped to donate $250,000 to the cause. The shows opened with sets of Indian music by sitarist Ravi Shankar, then moved through songs featuring Harrison, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and another ex-Beatle, Ringo Starr. But the evening's most ecstatic ovations were reserved for the unexpected appearance of Bob Dylan. |
2/5/1968 | Narottam Nagar, veteran hindi writer, passed away. |
7/27/1949 | Agreement reached on the ceasefire line in Kashmir. |
3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
11/1/2000 | T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date. |
8/7/1905 | Indian National Congress declared to boycott the British goods for the first time against Bengal partition, and also advocated to buy ' Swadeshi. |
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