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Historical Event on 3/10/1922

Gandhiji arrested for the first time in Bombay on the charges of sedition at Sabarmati.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1953Riots against increase in streetcar fares continue with demonstrators taking control of parts of Calcutta.
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3/12/1988After 58 years in the commemoration of Dandi March, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi performed the 32 kms Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram.
4/23/1959Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma.
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8/10/2000Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.
9/13/1906Surendra Kumar Dey, social reformer and politician, was born at Sylhet (Bangladesh).
4/4/1997World Bank Atlas for 1997 put India as world's fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity estimated around $1318 trillion.
11/16/2000The Government to reduce equity holding in nationalised banks from 51 per cent to 33 per cent.