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Historical Event on 10/1/1909

Gandhiji wrote to Tolstoy regarding Passive Resistance movement.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/8/1988At 0910 hrs, One - O - Four's moments of glory were frozen for eternity when it received the coveted colours from the then President of Indian R Venkatraman.
6/11/1946Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre.
9/19/1996Suresh Mehta ministry is dismissed, President's rule imposed.
11/3/1605Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra.
11/13/1995The Supreme Court in an unanimous 65-page verdict declares that patients who received deficient services from the medical profession and hospitals were entitled to claim damages under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
8/5/2000Lala Amarnath (88), former Indian cricketer, died in New Delhi.
7/31/2000The Lok Sabha passes by voice vote a bill for creation of Chhattisgarh state.
7/19/1955Roger Michael Humphery Binny, Indian medium-pace all-rounder early eighties, was born at Bangalore.