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Historical Event on 1/18/1997
SC says telephone tapping is violation of fundamental rights but permits it by government in special circumstances.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/5/1967 | Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister. |
| 9/16/1977 | Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay. |
| 7/16/1969 | Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/01/1973. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 3/4/1939 | Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia. |
| 1/23/2000 | India will be taught a lesson if it tries to cross the LoC, says the Pakistani military ruler, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. |
| 5/4/1959 | Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China. |
| 3/29/1869 | Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born. |
| 6/6/1947 | Gandhiji writes to Mountbatten, with Pakistan conceded, to persuade Jinnah to amicable settle all outstanding points with Congress. |
| 3/10/2000 | Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Minister, submits his resignation without putting his motion of seeking a trust vote to test in the assembly. The RJD leader Rabri Devi meets the Governor and stakes claim to form the Government. |
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