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Historical Event on 5/20/1991
A. S. L. V. was launched.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 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. |
| 3/13/1992 | Indumati Ramkrishna Shevde, famous writer, critic and painter, passed away. |
| 10/28/2000 | The Royal Canadian Mounted police arrest two Sikhs, Ripudaman Singh Malik (53) and Ajaib Singh Bagri (51), in Vancouver in connection with the downing of Air India Boeing 747 en route from Canada to London in 1985. |
| 11/9/1924 | Pandit C. R. Vyas, veteran singer, was born. |
| 1/18/2000 | India and the US resume talks to narrow their differences on the CTBT. |
| 9/27/1995 | Cellular phone service operates for the first time in Delhi. |
| 12/1/1921 | Des Raj Kalia, great librarian, was born at Fazilka, Punjab. |
| 6/4/1992 | Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested. |
| 12/15/1912 | Aspy Merwan, engineer and who became the Air Marchal of India, was born. |
| 11/20/1993 | RBI clears two more private banks: The Times Bank Ltd. and the Indus Ind Bank Ltd. |
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