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Historical Event on 6/1/1995
Kanshi Ram (Bahujan Samaj Party) withdraws support to the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led government in UP and stakes claim to form a new government.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/12/1993 | Samsher Bahadur Singh, modern Hindi poet, passed away. |
| 5/13/1962 | Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) became the second President of India. He held this office till May 13, 1967. |
| 3/13/1857 | Lord William Pit, Governer General of India (1823-28), passed away. |
| 1/6/1997 | Sumita Ghosh (CISF) sets a National junior women's record in the standard rifle 3 position in National shooting. |
| 12/28/1981 | Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 2/16/1896 | Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', great Hindi poet, litterateur, writer, social worker and editor, was born. |
| 5/31/1947 | Gandhiji declares that peace must precede partition, and he would not be party to India's vivisection. |
| 10/16/1952 | Pakistan's first Test vs India starts at Delhi. |
| 6/20/1997 | Basu Bhattacharya (65), film-maker, died in Mumbai. |
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