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Historical Event on 2/9/1993
Congress (I), AIADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu breaks over Hindi imposition.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/2/1955 | A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak. |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 5/22/1996 | Akbar captured Ahmednagar. |
| 10/14/1953 | Raghunath Dhondo Karve, Family Planning and Sex Education preacher, died. |
| 9/18/1967 | English was adopted the official language of Nagaland . |
| 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. |
| 1/12/1990 | Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years. |
| 7/19/1949 | Raja of Tehri Garhwal announces merger with Indian Union. |
| 4/15/1874 | Tryambak Sitaram Karkhanis, founder of `Maharashtra Natak Mandali', was born. |
| 10/15/1899 | Menka (Lady Lila Sokhi), famous Indian dancer, was born. |
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