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Historical Event on 10/1/1928
Shivaji Ganeshan, famous actor, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1921 | Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab. |
| 12/20/1757 | Clauk became Governor of Bengal. |
| 6/20/1992 | The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate. |
| 8/1/1920 | Under the leadership of Gandhi, the non-cooperation movement was launched against Lord Chelmsford. ""Firmness in truth,"" was his strategy of noncooperation and non-violence against India's Christian British rulers. Later, he resolved to wear only 'dhoti' to preserve homespun cotton and simplicity, followed with grassroots agitation. This began with renunciation of honorary titles like 'Sir' given by the British. Thereafter, it was followed by the boycott of legislatures, elections and other Government works. Foreign clothes were burnt and Khadi became a symbol of freedom. The movement was a great success despite firing and arrests. By the end of 1921, all important national leaders, except Gandhi, were in jail, along with 3000 others. However, in February 1922, at Chaurichaura, Uttar Pradesh, violence erupted and Gandhi called off the movement. He was imprisoned and the movement was over. |
| 11/1/1949 | Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India. |
| 9/19/2000 | India remains committed to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear tests, but we will not allow this stand to stand in the way of our protecting India's supreme natural interest,'' said Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on his return from the US. |
| 3/4/1939 | Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia. |
| 9/15/1947 | Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 11/22/1872 | Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England. |
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