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Historical Event on 3/8/1930

Mahatma Gandhi started civil disobedience movement continues in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
11/10/1990Two Burmese youth hijack a Thai Airlines Airbus with 221 passengers on board to Calcutta.
11/3/1933Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal).
9/6/1903Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow.
11/25/1962Dasganu (Ganesh Dattatreya Sahastrabuddhe), modern Marathi saint and poet, passed away.
6/3/1916Smt. Nathibai Damodar Thakarsey Women's University was established.
9/13/1990An attempt to hijack a Coimbatore-Bangalore-Madras Indian Airlines flight IC 534 to Sri Lanka.
8/19/1977Earthquake measuring 7.7-8.9 on the Richter Scale hits Indian Ocean. It is believed to be the strongest ever earthquake.
7/1/1913Kumarmanglam Parasshiv Prabhakar, former Chief of Indian Army, was born.
3/3/1997Indian Socialist Party headed by Arangil Sridharan merges with Lok Sakthi. It was floated by Ramakrishna Hedge.