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Historical Event on 3/8/1930

Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/5/1990Rajya Sabha approves the Prasar Bharati Bill rejecting by voice vote three motions moved by the Congress(I) to refer the Bill to a joint select committee.
6/27/1894Chhaganbapa (Chhaganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker, was born.
1/17/1601Akbar, after eight month's siege, entered Asirgarh one of the strongest forts in India.
8/19/1993Utpal Dutt, famous actor, writer, director and producer, died. He was 64.
4/21/1996Sanjay Thapar of the IAF (leader) becomes first Indian to parachute down to geometric North pole and unfurl the flag.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.
3/29/1992The expert committee recomends an autonomous council for the Jharkhand region of Bihar.
4/12/1992The 350-tonne Buddha statue salvaged from the Hussain Sagar where it had sunk in 1990.
6/22/1910Mohommed Hussain `Azad', great Urdu poet, eassy writer and critic, died.
7/6/1939Manmohan Sood, cricketer (scored 0 & 3 in his only Test for India), was born in Lahore.