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Historical Event on 2/23/1843
Narendranath Sen, famous journalist, was born.
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| 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. |
| 2/25/1993 | Kranti Renadev, a naxalite under trial in Andhra, freed. |
| 7/21/1993 | Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 5/8/1815 | Malaun of Nepal was captured by General David Ochterlony. |
| 2/22/1946 | Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day. |
| 12/17/1740 | Chimaji Appa, Peshwa warrior, died. |
| 4/20/1992 | U. K. Kanitkar, famous scientist, and professor, passed away. |
| 7/16/1959 | Suhridkumar Roy, famous geologist, died. |
| 11/23/1991 | Bhaskaracharya Research Institute established at Dhule. |
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