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Historical Event on 9/25/1984
Indian Army withdraws from the Golden Temple; repair of Akal Takht complete.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/3/1998 | The BJP releases its election manifesto promising to make India a nuclear state; build a Ram temple at Ayodha and work for a uniform civil code. |
| 5/15/1998 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar maestro, receives the 1998 Polar music award. |
| 9/23/1992 | Indian-designed pilotless target aircraft 'Lakshya' successfully tested. |
| 12/7/1979 | Ramandeep Singh Gill, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Oslo, Norway. |
| 10/16/1896 | Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born. |
| 3/13/1991 | President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha. |
| 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. |
| 6/5/1980 | Manipur University was established. |
| 5/7/1990 | Foundation stones are laid in Ayodhya for a new temple at the birthplace of Lord Rama as Hindu nationalism rises. Government disallows the Shilanyas. |
| 12/20/1990 | Supreme Court stays Delhi High Court judge Justice Chawla's orders on the Bofors issue. |
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