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Historical Event on 6/30/1914

Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest during campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1955S. P. Kampani, was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 18-07-1957.
10/29/1992Komar Singh, the first Indian Ambassador to Israel, presented credentials to President Chain Herzog in Jerusalem.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
11/29/1961First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India.
8/9/1942Subhash Chandra Bose (Netaji) forms the Indian National Army in Malaya with the help of the Japanese. He inaugurates the Government of Free India at Singapore.
6/28/1993A multi-millionaire industrialist, main financier of smuggler Veerappan,and 6 Veerappan-men arrested.
3/15/1992Dr. Rahi Masum Raza, film screenplay, story and dialogue writer, passed away at the age of 64 years.
12/30/1935Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK.
8/10/1855Alladiya Khan, famous singer of Kolhapur court, was born.
11/14/1959Nehru rejects China's proposal for a mutual withdrawal of troops from a border buffer zone.