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Historical Event on 8/6/1925
Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1967 | Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died. |
| 12/5/1991 | The government reduces visa fees for tourists intending to visit India. |
| 8/11/1956 | The Lok Sabha passed the States Reorganisation Act. |
| 8/20/1997 | Arun Gawli, Mumbai underworld don, arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of a builder. |
| 10/6/1913 | V. R. Kant, famous poet, was born. |
| 10/6/1913 | Taimurlang passed away. |
| 1/1/1989 | India and Pakistan sign three agreements. |
| 10/9/1978 | Asian Games begin in Bangkok. |
| 11/16/1860 | First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
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