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Historical Event on 3/8/1930

Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
4/20/1973Rioting over food shortages ends after three days in Nagpur.
8/19/1907Acharya Hajariprasad Dwivedi was born.
2/24/1988Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
9/30/1996Centre gives its consent to Tamil Nadu government's decision to rename Madras as Chennai.
12/27/1988The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan.
7/18/1908Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay.
11/29/1948Assembly bans discrimination against untouchables.
11/15/1997INS Delhi' commissioned.



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