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Historical Event on 9/7/1931

Meena Mangeshkar, famous playback singer, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/16/1835Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. She was named Manikarnika and was called 'Manu'. (16 or19).
12/28/1921Prince of Wales inagurated Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta.
7/3/1979Construction of the main second Howrah Bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) started.
1/4/1932Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants.
7/15/1902Judge K. Subba Rao, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
7/3/1661Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II.
12/27/1988The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan.
12/27/1988Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort.
7/17/1930Lord Irwin,British Viceroy, allows Indian moderates to visit Gandhi in prison.
7/17/1930Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.