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Historical Event on 2/5/1922
Gandhiji, following Chauri Chaura (U.P.) tragedy in which 22 police constables and one sub-inspector were burnt to death by a mob, fasts for five days and abandons plan of satyagraha movement.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/24/1946 | Congress party rejects British plan for provisional govt. pending constitution in New Delhi. |
| 7/2/1991 | Nanankal Krishna Pillai, famous Malyalam poet, died. |
| 9/6/1947 | Indian government creates a new ministry of relief and rehabilitation of refugees. |
| 9/19/1997 | Ambar Roy, Indian test batsman (1969-70), died in Calcutta. |
| 6/23/1958 | Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority. |
| 7/13/1998 | The Government is prevented from tabling the Women's Reservation Bill. |
| 9/24/1999 | India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam. |
| 7/3/1992 | Avinash Ganesh Mohadikar, journalist and former editor of magzine `Vyapar Udyog', passed away. |
| 9/20/1856 | Narayan Guru was born in Chempazhanthi village of Kerala. Sri Narayan Guru was a social reformer, led reform movement in Kerala, rejected casteism, and promoted new values of spiritual freedom and social equality. He also stressed the need for the spiritual and social uplift of the downtrodden by their own efforts through the establishment of temples and educational institutions. In the process, he denounced the superstitions that clouded the fundamental Hindu cultural convention of caste. |
| 11/2/1971 | Hurricane and ensuing tidal wave takes 6,000 lives. |
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