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Historical Event on 5/5/1930
Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year.
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| 12/27/1797 | Mirza Ghalib, great urdu poet and writer, was born at Agra. |
| 9/27/1907 | Bhagat Singh, the legendary revolutionary, was born at Banga in West Punjab, Layalpur now in Pakistan. |
| 8/11/1893 | First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra. |
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| 12/21/2000 | Women's Bill put off again. |
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| 5/2/1954 | Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism. |
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