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Historical Event on 3/2/1930
Gandhiji addresses letter to Viceroy intimating his intention to break Salt Law if Congress demands are not conceded.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1933 | Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. |
| 2/4/1924 | Kocheril Raman Narayan, ninth Vice President of India and now president of India, was born. |
| 6/5/1973 | Madhav Sadashiv Golvalkar, politician and RSS chief, passed away. |
| 6/5/1973 | Pedro Cabral departs from Pourtugol with 13 ships to India. |
| 8/4/1933 | Gandhi is imprisoned for one year for breaking a restraint order. |
| 5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 2/14/1914 | Vinaya Kumar Parashar, journalist and social worker, was born at Hemgir, M.P. |
| 2/24/1786 | Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India. |
| 2/24/1786 | Akbar removed 'Jeziya' or toll-tax for his non-Muslim subjects. |
| 1/6/1959 | Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj, cricketer (India's finest all-rounder 1978-94, Cup-1982), was born in Chandigarh. |
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