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Historical Event on 3/5/1931

Mahatma Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign a pact referred in Indian History as ""Gandhi-Irwin Pact"", after which the civic disobedience movement was taken back.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/5/1974Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died.
10/26/1961Heavy fighting flared up between India and Communist China in their three-year-old dispute over border lines in the Himalayas. Each side accused the other of initiating the fighting that began along the Tibetan border early in October.
1/10/1953Opening ceremony of Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research held.
5/27/1964Gulzarilal Nanda was entrusted the responsibility as Acting Prime Minster of India. He held this office till June 9, 1964. He is till date the only Acting Prime Minster of India.
4/4/1947San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India.
8/21/1997Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India.
4/13/1984Kerala Government drops Silent Valley Project and declares the entire area a national park.
5/20/1940Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away.
12/10/1984Justice Thakkar Commission appointed to enquire into the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
12/10/1984Muiz ud din Qaiqabad, was the tenth sultan of the Mamluk dynasty (Slave dynasty), was killed in his bed. He was proved to be an inefficient ruler.