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Historical Event on 12/25/1876
Mohamad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, was born.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
5/3/1977 | Hamid Dalwai, father of Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal in Maharashtra, passed away. |
11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
1/3/1871 | Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara, freedom fighter and social reformer, died. |
12/5/1905 | Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was born in Soura, Srinagar, Kashmir. |
9/24/1726 | King George empowered the company to establish Municipal Corporation and Mayor s Courts in Bombay and Calcutta. |
3/6/1962 | Ambika Chakrovorty, great revolutionary and warrior, passed away. |
4/28/1996 | EC orders re-polling in 69 booths in four states. |
2/15/1992 | Kesri Publications started the first Indian newspaper in `Brail' lipi (language). |
10/10/1946 | Noakhali Massacre. |
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