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Historical Event on 1/24/1996

H.K.L. Bhagat, senior Congress politician and former minister, arrested in connection with a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/26/1910Unrest flares up in the Deccan region of India. Demand grows for self-determination.
8/26/1997Employee Provident Fund scheme of 1952 amended to ensure that all PF claims are settled within 30 days from the date of receipt of claims by the PF Commissioner.
1/26/1882Telephone line started working between Mumbai and Calcutta.
2/12/1998Om Prakash, 78, Hindi film comedian, passed away in Mumbai.
8/10/1992Ram Niwas Mirdha appointed Chairman of the JPC on scam.
8/18/1985Assam Assembly dissolved (18).
8/26/1947Nawab of Bhopal announced accession of the Bhopal state to the Indian Dominion.
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.
5/16/1998India rejects China's charges on N-tests.
12/17/1974Ustad Gulam Sabir, famous Sarangi player, died at Kanpur.