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Historical Event on 9/24/1936
It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 7/20/1955 | Suez Canal nationalised by Gamal Abdul Nassar. |
| 2/25/1995 | Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed. |
| 6/10/1984 | Top army commander killed in Bihar; Sikh troops desert unit. |
| 1/24/1826 | Gnanendra Mohan Tagore, first Indian barrister, was born in Calcutta. |
| 9/5/1888 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras. |
| 1/31/1996 | Asia's first Sports University inaugurated in Pune. |
| 5/13/1648 | Construction of the Red Fort at Dehli was completed. |
| 11/10/1960 | First Nagpur session of Maharashtra State. |
| 1/12/1992 | India and Russia sign a new political treaty. |
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