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Historical Event on 2/20/1982
The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/16/1913 | Kasturba Gandhi was arrested. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
| 1/11/1955 | Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India. |
| 1/11/1955 | Mian Tansen, a prominent figure of North Indian (Hindustani) classical music and famous singer of Akbar's court, died at Gwalior. Tansen is remembered for his epic Dhrupad compositions, creating several new ragas, as well as for writing two classic books on music Sri Ganesh Stotra and Sangita Sara. |
| 3/25/1898 | Dalpatrai (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Trawadi), modern Gujrati poet, passed away. |
| 7/11/1924 | Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi. |
| 9/27/1833 | Raja Rammohan Roy, great social reformer, lawyer and politician passed away at Stapleton Grove in England. |
| 11/28/1998 | The Congress(I) wins the Assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 1/10/1908 | Gandhiji adopts word, ""Satyagraha"" in place of ""Passive Resistance"". Sentenced to two months' imprisonment for failure to leave Transvaal. |
| 8/1/1998 | The DMK condemns the BJP-led coalition Government's decision to set up a Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency and rejects the Action Taken Report on the final report of the Jain Commission with reference to Mr. M. Karunanidhi. |
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