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Historical Event on 8/1/1846
Dwarkanath Tagore, a Hindu philanthropist, died in London.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/14/1919 | Gandhiji confesses at Nadiad his ""Himalayan Miscalculation"" regarding satyagraha martial law declared in Punjab. |
| 2/7/1687 | Mughal army won the Gowalkonda fort. Kutubshahi came to end. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 7/7/1937 | Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 9/1/1999 | The Congress(I) President, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, launches a broadside against the Vajpayee Government on handling of Kargil issue. |
| 3/9/1974 | Guru Amudan Sharma, famous Manipuri dance master, passed away. |
| 1/19/1992 | Manvendra Mukherji, famous singer and music director, passed away. |
| 3/30/1919 | Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act. |
| 2/8/1989 | Mrs. Gro Harlem Brundtland, PM of Norway, was awarded 1988 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development. |
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