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Historical Event on 4/6/1919

Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/26/1935Ashok P.Jain, great industrialist, was born.
5/7/1973Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died.
9/20/1921Pamanmal Hazari Punjabi, right-hand batsman (164 runs in five tests vs Pakistan in 1954-55), was born at Karachi.
7/1/1852For the first time in Asia, Postal Stamp for the general public was issued by Sindh Province in Karachi.
8/14/1947Pakistan was partitioned from India. Gandhiji hailed the following day as one of rejoicing for deliverance from British bondage.
4/5/1944221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site.
7/11/1973India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds.
12/27/1975A coal-mine was exploded at Chasnala mine near Dhanbad. It was India's worst coal mine disaster.
1/30/1988Sheshrao Wankhede, barrister, passed away.
6/19/1990NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.