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Historical Event on 1/22/1760
In the battle at Wandiwash (India), after their victory against the French, the British virtually had no European opponent left in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1984 | Bomb attack at Madras airport claims 32 lives. |
| 2/2/1986 | Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India. |
| 5/17/1887 | Ranglal Bandopadhyay, Bengali poet, essay-writer and journalist, passed away. |
| 12/16/1770 | Ludwig Van Beethoven, greatest musician, poet and innovator, was born. |
| 12/13/2000 | Vijay Samuel Hazare, former Indian cricket captain, becomes the first recipient of the 'Castrol Lifetime Achievement award'. |
| 12/15/1999 | The CPI (M) urges the Centre to take over Dunlop India Ltd. |
| 8/17/1848 | Romesh Chunder Dutt, great political leader, writer and social worker, was born. |
| 8/20/1979 | Indian premier Charan Singh resigns. |
| 10/6/1779 | Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma 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. |
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