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Historical Event on 1/1/1981

Colaba District renamed as Raigad District.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/5/1974Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died.
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.
10/1/1990Constitution's 75th amendment bill to extend President's rule in Punjab for another six months fails through the first stage in Lok Sabha for want of a simple majority.
1/25/1880Brahmo Samaj of modernisation and fraternity amongst religions Nababidhan Keshab Chandra Sen introduced.
6/1/1959The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India.
10/14/1955Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia .
7/5/1946Ram Vilas Jamun Paswan was born in Shaharbanni, Distt. Khagaria (Bihar).
2/8/1785Warren Hastings, British Viceroy, left  India.
1/18/2000S. S. Dawra is appointed new Director of the Enforcement Directorate.
1/18/2000Vasco-de-Gama was the Last Viceroy of Portuguese, who ruled India.