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Historical Event on 12/30/1947
India informs Pakistan and other dominion representatives that it has decided to refer the Kashmir issue to the Security Council under Article 35 of the United Nations Charter.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/25/1889 | Pandurangi Kodanda Rao, journalist, Hindi writer and social worker, was born in Visakhapatnam, A.P. |
| 12/11/1906 | Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka. |
| 1/20/1931 | Saroj Kumari', a feature film produced by Mahavir Photoplays and Theatres Ltd., Secunderabad, was prohibited on January 20 on the grounds that it was ''sordid'' and ''revolting''. |
| 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. |
| 2/10/1946 | Gandhiji revives 'Harijan' and allied group of weekly journals. |
| 11/21/1993 | R.F. Botha, Foreign Minister, moots a grouping of Indian Ocean countries. |
| 9/29/1907 | Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India 'like the Czar runs Russia' |
| 3/31/1986 | Bombay Telephone Nigam renamed as Mahanagar Telephone Nigam. |
| 11/16/1999 | Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'. |
| 9/2/1993 | Vice Admiral V.S. Shekhawat appointed new naval chief. |
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