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Historical Event on 2/10/1943
Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/3/1903 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born. |
| 3/28/1997 | Final phase of repatriation of Chakma and other tribal refugees of the Chittagong Hill Tracts from Tripura begins. |
| 12/3/1948 | Surendra Pratap Singh, famous journalist and chief editor of Navbharat Times, was born. |
| 12/4/1924 | Gateway of India was inagurated by Lord Riding. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 8/7/1985 | Geet Sethi, national champion, was the third Indian to become World Amateur Billiards Champion by beating Robert Marshal of Australia. |
| 8/7/1985 | Buhlul Khan Lodi, an Afghan of Lodi tribe, marched down upon Delhi. |
| 4/17/1996 | Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains. |
| 11/5/1977 | Indira Gandhi arrested and released unconditionally. The External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi. |
| 10/24/1997 | Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance. |
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