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Historical Event on 9/7/1996
First phase of J & K Assembly elections.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/13/1947 | Nicholas Raerich, great philosopher, master-artist, prolific writer, scientist, educator, designer, poet, humanitarian, explorer, leader and social worker, died at Naggar, Kulu. |
| 1/8/1908 | Gandhiji asks the Government for suspension of Registration Act, offers voluntary registration. |
| 2/12/1993 | The baggage rules relaxed further. |
| 10/26/1962 | After Chinese attack, Emergency and Defence of India Ordinance was declared for the first time in India by the President. |
| 11/22/1988 | Baba Amte wins U.N. Human Rights Award. |
| 2/5/1968 | Narottam Nagar, veteran hindi writer, passed away. |
| 4/8/1937 | R. Gundurao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka and senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 12/31/1900 | Krishna Narayan Ratanjankar, famous musician and writer of Tan Sangrah in three parts and Abhinav Geet Mangari, was born in Bombay. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma 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. |
| 5/19/1908 | Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born. |
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