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Historical Event on 5/8/1930
Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/16/1954 | French rule ends in Mahe. De facto power was transferred to the people and the Indian flag hoisted. |
| 9/14/1820 | Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning. |
| 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. |
| 12/8/1930 | British Gen. Norman Simpson shot at desk by Indian nationalists. |
| 3/21/1992 | India's second submarine 'Shankul' joined Navy. |
| 5/13/1956 | Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore. |
| 11/27/1907 | Harivanshrai Bachchan, famous Hindi writer and poet, was born at Allahabad. |
| 6/3/1912 | Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born. |
| 4/8/1857 | Mangal Pandey, the first revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, was hanged till death at Barrackpore. He struck the first bullet during the time of mutiny against the British Empire. |
| 7/23/1903 | Chandra Shekhar Azad was born Today in 1903 |
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