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Historical Event on 1/9/1935

Britain signs the Trade Pack with India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/14/1997India expresses regret over ""inadvertent intrusion"" of IAF helicopter into Bangladesh territory.
12/25/1946Gandhiji said, at Noakhali, ""I am being tested through and through"".
5/4/1989Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, passed away.
5/1/1922Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra.
4/15/1956A combined army and police action against well armed Naga rebels.
2/2/1964Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, social reformer and freedom fighter, passed away.
12/14/1999The Prime Minister informs the Lok Sabha that Ram Prakash Gupta has denied the remarks on temple construction.
9/24/1936It was reported that in the past two weeks over 2 million of India's depressed classes had renounced Hinduism in favor of Christianity.
3/21/1976The Indian people have delivered a stinging rebuke to the woman who had ruled them without the benefit of a constitution for the past 19 months by dumping her from office in a landslide election. After 11 years of rule, Indira Gandhi has resigned, and in an uncharacteristically humble statement said she ""accepted the verdict unreservedly"" and promised ""constructive cooperation"" with the new government. The heads of the victorious parties immediately dropped the year-and-a-half-old state of emergency, freed political prisoners, and began negotiations over who would head the new government.
6/4/1992Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested.