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Historical Event on 5/4/1932

Many are arrested as Congress agents picket Bombay post offices in celebration of Gandhi Day.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/30/1998Sonia Gandhi names Ashok Ghelot and Sheila Dixit as Chief Ministers of Rajasthan and Delhi respectively.
5/9/1981Pandit Sundarlal, great revolutionary and writer of 'Bharat Mein Angreji Raj', passed away.
8/27/1978Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland.
11/9/1992Chandralekha resigns from IAS and joins Tamizhaga Wellatchi Iyyakkam (Tamil Movement for Good Government) led by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy.
1/1/1988The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA.
8/8/1967Central government, for the first time since independence, suffered a token defeat in the Lok Sabha.
8/17/1994Opposition ends Parliament boycott.
11/10/1938Mustafa Kemal Ataturk passed away at Istanbul.
10/3/1906Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay.
8/18/1957Tilak Raj was appointed the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed his office for four years till 6th September, 1961.