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Historical Event on 1/14/1641
United East Indian Company conquers city of Malakka, 7,000 killed.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
11/2/1984 | Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll. |
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. |
2/6/1996 | Supreme Court upholds election of CPI (M) leader O. Bharathan to Kerala Assembly from Edakkad (91). |
12/15/1999 | The CPI (M) urges the Centre to take over Dunlop India Ltd. |
2/14/1914 | Vinaya Kumar Parashar, journalist and social worker, was born at Hemgir, M.P. |
10/25/1983 | Technical Cell constituteded with a view to promote the use of official language Hindi on mechanical or electronic devices. |
4/20/1991 | Ganesh Sadashiv Bhat, famous Marathi film director and President's Award winner of 1963, passed away. |
9/27/1908 | Shiv Verma, great soldier, was born. |
4/28/1996 | EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states. |
5/30/1952 | S.C.Mathur was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 01-07-1955. |
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