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Historical Event on 11/14/1997
10th International Film Festival for children and young people ambles into Hyderabad atop Gajju, the delightful elephant mascot. About 125 films from 30 countries will be screened.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1976 | Indira Gandhi asks for sweeping new powers at New Delhi. |
| 12/14/1962 | Bharathi Arun, cricketer (Indian pace bowler late-80's), was born in Vijayawada. |
| 9/30/1908 | Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist, was born. |
| 11/19/1991 | Kashinath Anant (Rambhau Joshi), famous editor, passed away. |
| 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. |
| 4/18/1916 | Iyyer G. Subramaniam, Congress leader, passed away. |
| 1/7/1883 | Martyer Sohanlal Pathak was born. |
| 5/1/1966 | Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra. |
| 11/20/1955 | Polly Umrigar scores India's first Test double century, 223 vs NZ. |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
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