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Historical Event on 4/18/1917

Gandhi saw one of his testing grounds of Satyagraha in Champaran. He defied section 144 of Criminal Act.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/28/2000Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup.
4/30/1998Anna Hazare, social worker, was awarded the CARE International humanitarian award for 1998.
8/25/1919Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, former Chief Minister of Bihar and President of Mandal Commission, was born.
1/29/1931Gandhiji sails for England as Congress delegate to Second Round Table Conference. This conference was attended by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Sarojini Naidu.
8/17/1761William Carey, the first English missionary to India, was born. He taught at the newly founded Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 till his death and helped found the Serampore Press, which made the Bible accessible to over 300 million people.
1/9/1982A group of 21 Indian scientists team led by S. Z. Qasim started for the first ever Antarctica expedition on December 1981 - Jan 1982.
7/27/19987 Hindus are gunned down in two Doda villages of Jammu and Kashmir.
10/25/1971National Science and Technology Committee established.
8/28/1976Second World Hindi Conference held in Mauritius.
1/26/1981Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated.