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Historical Event on 2/26/1996
Sahib Singh Verma sworn in as Delhi's second CM.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1996 | Deve Gowda, PM, to attend G-15 summit in Harare. This was his first foreign trip as PM. |
| 11/9/1977 | Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away. |
| 1/24/1980 | E. K. Nayanar forms Government in Kerala. |
| 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. |
| 3/25/1931 | 50 killed in riots in India; Gandhi assaulted. |
| 5/5/1947 | Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
| 5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 11/17/1925 | Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born. |
| 3/23/2000 | Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, died at his home town in Sansarpur (near Jalandhar). |
| 7/20/1954 | Armistice for Indo-China signed. |
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