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Historical Event on 5/15/1729
Khanderao Dabhade, great warrior in Maratha kingdom, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1883 | Under the leadership of Surendra Nath Banerji, the political group of Bengal organised National Conference as ""Bharat Sabha"". |
| 5/28/1988 | The first Cultural Exchange Programme was signed between India and China. |
| 11/23/1919 | Sitaram Mahadeo Bapat, teacher and author, was born at Miraj in district Sangli. |
| 8/20/1995 | 305 killed and 345 injured in collision between Purushottam Express and Kalindi Express at Murlinagar near Firozabad (UP). |
| 7/6/1960 | The President promulgates the ESMA, 1960. |
| 5/14/1993 | Justice V. Ramaswamy decides to resign. |
| 1/25/1824 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district. |
| 3/22/1957 | National Calander based on Saka Samvat was adopted. As per this calander, the date of adoption was "Chaitra first, 1879 Saka along with Gregorian. |
| 8/15/1955 | Satyagrah started for the freedom of Goa. |
| 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. |
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