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Historical Event on 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.

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3/18/1922Muhammad Tughluq Shah II passed away at Sindh.
5/19/1908Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born.
5/9/1919Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.
9/9/1949Hindi was accepted as the national language of India.
10/10/1998Uzma Khan and Nitin Kirtane bag the women's and men's crowns in the national tennis championships in Delhi.
7/22/1944Man Mohan Modi Seth , great industrialist, was born at Modinagar, U.P.
11/19/1962Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi.
5/17/1993Visiting Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres signs an MOU with his Indian counterpart to end nearly 4 decades of inactivity in bilateral relation.
5/14/1998India will not sign CTBT unconditionally, says the Prime Minister.
10/9/1978Asian Games begin in Bangkok.