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Historical Event on 1/26/1930
Mahatma Gandhi started the Dandi march to protest against the Salt Act of the British and the same day Indians swore to get 'Total' Swaraj and organised the day as Swaraj Day.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
| 10/13/1971 | Hitesh Modi, cricketer (Kenyan left-handed batsman 1996 World Cup), was born. |
| 5/24/1956 | Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated. |
| 6/30/1993 | AN-12 phasing out marked the end of a glorious chapter of transport operations in the IAF. |
| 2/8/1912 | Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away. |
| 9/4/1987 | Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan. |
| 7/9/1875 | The Bombay Stock Exchange, the first in India, was constructed under the shade of a large banyan tree. |
| 4/10/1880 | C.Y. Chintamani, renowned journalist, was born. |
| 4/10/1880 | Akbar responded with alacrity and arrived at Ahmadabad and made adequate arrangements for its administration. |
| 7/25/1988 | Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar. |
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