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Historical Event on 9/23/1952
Anshuman Dattajirao Gaekwad, batsman in 40 Tests (1974-85), was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/24/1657 | Kalyan and Bhiwandi came under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. |
| 3/9/1902 | Edward Durell Stone, US architect (US Embassy, New Delhi), was born. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 4/18/1959 | India, Pakistan sign one-year pact on Indus River irrigation. |
| 7/22/1702 | The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company. |
| 5/10/1992 | Dr. D.S.Tyagi, Chairman of the Agricultural Costs and Prices Commission, was shot dead by suspected Sikh terrorists in Delhi. |
| 9/10/1999 | Sonia Gandhi files her nomination papers for the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. |
| 7/20/1829 | Jankibai passed away in jail. |
| 4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
| 7/14/1994 | Veerappan, Sandalwood smuggler, declared 'proclaimed offender'. |
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