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Historical Event on 1/10/1908

Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/1/1958Metric System of weights was introduced in India.
8/1/1953All Private Airlines were nationalised by establishing of All Airlines India International.
4/17/1977Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.
12/15/1951Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched.
12/24/1921Rabindranath Tagore established ""Visva Bharati"" at Santiniketan with Brojendra Nath Seal as the chief guest.
10/10/1996UP polls throw up a hung assembly.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
1/1/1914Dhirendra Nath Mukherji, social worker, was born at Bankura, West Bengal.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
6/16/1993Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded.