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Historical Event on 3/31/1913

Foundation stone of 'Gateway of India' was laid by Sir George Sydneham Clerk.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1932Dr. Manmohan Singh, former finance minister, economist and Governor of R.B.I., was born.
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.
10/31/1997Autonomous Prasar Bharati with enough muscle to get Government off its back is promised by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy, while announcing changes to Prasar Bharati Act in New Delhi.
2/18/1665The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England.
9/24/1726King George empowered the company to establish Municipal Corporation and Mayor s Courts in Bombay and Calcutta.
7/8/1928Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks.
3/10/1998B. B. Lyngdoh of the United Democratic Party is sworn in Chief Minister of Meghalaya. The 12-day-old Congress(I) Ministry resigned following the failure of the party nominee to be elected as Speaker.
8/10/2000Parliament approves the Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill to create a hilly state of Uttaranchal.
10/6/1990Justice Ranganath Mishra sworn in as Chief Justice of Supreme Court.
12/12/1721Balaji Bajirao (Nanasaheb Peshwa), third Peshwa, was born.