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Historical Event on 3/8/2000
The Gujarat Government withdraws its January 3 notification, thus reimposing the ban on its employees from participating in RSS activities.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/4/1906 | Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
| 5/4/1957 | Rai Chaudhary Hemchandra, great historian, passed away. |
| 11/11/1973 | India's first International Philatelic Exihibition started in New Delhi. |
| 10/6/1997 | I. K. Gujral, PM, begins visit to South Africa, which was the first ever by an Indian Prime Minister. |
| 11/7/1893 | Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionaries in India, passed away at the age of 37. |
| 5/9/1907 | Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal. |
| 3/18/1948 | Socialist Party of India (SPI) disassociates itself from the Congress. |
| 3/18/1948 | Saint Gora Kumbhar, an intense devotee of the deity Vitthal at Pandharpur, took Samadhi in Ter village in Osmanabad Zilla, near Latur. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 7/10/1984 | White Paper on Punjab released by Union Government. |
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