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Historical Event on 9/17/1960
Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/13/1913 | Khawtin Khuma, politician, was born at Phuldungsei, Tripura. |
| 9/23/1803 | British-Indian forces defeated the Marathas in the Battle of Assaye. |
| 2/1/1917 | Samar Roy, cricket Test Umpire for 6 tests from 1961-70, was born in Bengal. |
| 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. |
| 6/17/1947 | Burma was adopted as republic by constitution assembly. |
| 12/1/1921 | Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, great nationalist leader, social reformer and freedom fighter was arrested by the British police for six months and sent to jail. |
| 7/8/1971 | Krishnarao Arkgudun, versatile Kannad author, died. |
| 4/25/1993 | Indian Airlines plane hijacker shot dead by commandoes. All 141 persons rescued. |
| 6/18/1946 | Congress Working Committee decides to accept Interim Government scheme. |
| 2/6/1954 | Kashmir Assembly accepts re-unification with India. |
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