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Historical Event on 9/11/1906

Gandhiji addressed a mass meeting of Indians at Johannesburg, where they took oath of passive resistance against the newly promulgated 'Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance'.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/19/1999The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.
5/17/1949India decided with only one dissent vote to remain within the Commonwealth of Nations.
2/18/1941There was a minor revolt in Royal Indian Navy which in now known as Indian Navy.
3/5/1948C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
5/1/1897Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission.
6/20/1756A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here.
5/21/1998India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing.
8/23/1995First ever cellular phone service begins in Calcutta.
7/16/1959Suhridkumar Roy, famous geologist, died.