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Historical Event on 5/31/1921
Suresh Hariprasad Joshi, modern Gujarati poet, story writer and critic, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/26/1996 | Supreme Court asks Harshad Mehta to pay Rs. 217 crore to the Income Tax department. |
| 10/28/1946 | Gandhiji leaves for Calcutta. Riots break out in Bihar. |
| 4/4/1994 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 1/1/1903 | A vast crowd thronged the great plain outside Delhi today, waiting to hear the declaration that King Edward VII was Emperor of India. The crowd, clothed in brilliantly colored garments, was largely composed of common people who had come to the durbar to see India's princes pledge their fealty to the Emperor . The Duke of Connaught, representing King Edward, sat on the left of the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who sat on a throne surrounded by giant silver footstools. Lord Curzon spoke briefly, then read a message from the King, who expressed regret at not being present at the durbar and his wishes for ""the increasing prosperity of my Indian Empire."" Among the dignitaries in the amphi-theater were 600 veterans of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58. |
| 10/12/1991 | Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi. |
| 7/3/1661 | Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II. |
| 7/27/1992 | Amjad Khan, famous film actor, died. |
| 10/4/1999 | Kerala High Court orders Election Commission to booth-wise counting. The EC is likely to move the Supreme Court against this order. |
| 1/28/1933 | India in Waldorf Hotel in London read out a four and a half page note in Cambridge. |
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