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Historical Event on 5/8/1930

Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1981Central Government offers full statehood to Mizoram.
5/14/1978Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, passed away.
6/22/1940Netaji Subhashchandra Bose established the 'Forward Block' after differences with Congress leaders.
3/18/1991West Bengal opts for assembly poll.
1/29/1996S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.
10/12/1995Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI.
4/3/1932Boycott of British goods was so widespread that 70\% of cotton products were now thought to have come from Japan.
8/17/1998National Human Rights Commission recommends compulsory registration of marriages in a bid to check child marriages.
3/17/1943Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma.
2/21/1899Suryakant Tripathi `Nirala', famous Hindi poet, was born.