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Historical Event on 9/5/1612

East India Company's Navy eastablished.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/27/1990Kabita Garari sets record for 10 Km W (Women) in 48.10 at Beijing Asian Games.
8/4/1931Narendra Shankar Tamhane, dependable Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1950's), was born in Bombay.
6/30/2000The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council adopts a resolution seeking separation from J&K.
3/4/1951Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.
5/1/1948Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
10/13/1877Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born.
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.
11/20/1946Gandhiji starts tour without party.
8/13/2000The Government announces the opening up of the national long distance communication segment with no restriction on the number of players.
9/12/1998India, Malaysia sign an agreement on cooperation in science and technology in Kuala Lumpur.