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Historical Event on 09/22/1599
24 merchants gathered in London's Founder Hall under the auspices of Lord Mayor to start a new company with a share captial in India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
| 7/24/1837 | Kanishta, son of Samajya Laxshmi, was killed. |
| 7/8/1996 | Mathematical Olympiad was held in Mumbai - the first time in India (from 08-17, 1996). |
| 7/26/1910 | Unrest flares up in the Deccan region of India. Demand grows for self-determination. |
| 2/14/1990 | An Indian Airlines Airbus crashes at Bangalore killing 92 people. |
| 9/19/2000 | Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
| 1/15/1888 | Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar. |
| 3/24/1944 | Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 4/13/1993 | Bhupan Hazarika wins Phalke Award for 1992. |
| 6/1/1930 | Baba Adhav was born. |
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