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Historical Event on 7/6/1927

Prabhjot Kaur, great poet and author, was born at Langrayal (Pakistan).

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10/18/1996Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi to be the venue for the trial of former PM Rao.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
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2/13/1998India signs two agreements with the U.N. Development Fund for a $13.75-million grant for food security and environment support.