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Historical Event on 4/1/1989
UN Peace-keeping Force arrives in Windhoek to prefare for independence of Namibia.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/17/1994 | Seshan's controversial biography ''DMK'' obtains stay. |
| 3/4/1996 | Union govt. decides to set up a national grid for the distribution of petroleum products. |
| 5/6/1680 | Chatrapati Rajaram Maharaj was crowned. |
| 10/18/1861 | Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya, historian and researcher, was born. |
| 10/6/2000 | Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief, withdraws her resignation from the Union Cabinet of Ministers. |
| 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. |
| 9/18/1803 | Second Anglo-Maratha war under Sir Arthur Wellesley resulted in a crushing defeat of the Marathas at Assaye. The British Christians captured Delhi and acquired control of large parts of India. |
| 12/25/1919 | Naushad, famous film music director, was born. |
| 7/22/1987 | A.G. Kripal Singh, 14 Tests for India and one century on debut, passed away. |
| 8/3/1960 | Gopal Sharma, great Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85), was born in Kanpur. |
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