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Historical Event on 9/14/1933

Gandhi declares one-year moratorium on civil disobedience in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/16/199917 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura.
5/16/1998India rejects China's charges on N-tests.
9/30/1997At least 20 civilians were killed and over 30 injured in unprovoked firing by Pakistani troops on Kargil town in Jammu&Kashmir.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
1/23/1965Indian first alloy and steel plant in the public sector started in Durgapur; alloy and steel plant limited project started.
1/26/1950India became a Republic within the British Commonwealth and the Indian Air Force dropped its ""Royal"" prefix. At this time, it possessed six fighter squadrons of Spitfires, Vampires and Tempests, operating from Kanpur, Poona, Ambala and Palam, one B-24 bomber squadron, one C-47 Dakota transport squadron, one AOP flight, a communications squadron at Palam and a growing training organisation.
12/1/1966Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian Union.
7/17/200055 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport.
2/25/1993BJP rally in New Delhi foiled.
1/18/1997Pulse Polio Immunisation Programme Phase II begins.