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1 day ago · Gandhi exhorted Indian men and women, rich or poor, to spend time each day spinning khadiin support of the independence movement.[114] In addition to boycotting British products, Gandhi urged the people to boycott British institutions and law courts, to resign from government employment, and to forsake British titles and honours.
4 days ago · Grenada - Independence, Caribbean, Spice Island: In the general election of August 1967, the Grenada United Labour Party (GULP) defeated the Grenada National Party (GNP) and took office under the premiership of Eric M. Gairy, a trade unionist. Grenada became an independent nation on February 7, 1974. The transition was marked by violence, strikes, and controversy centring upon Gairy, who was ...
4 days ago · Indonesia - Colonialism, Revolution, Independence: Indonesian nationalism in the 20th century must be distinguished from earlier movements of protest; the Padri War, the Java War, and the many smaller examples of sporadic agrarian unrest had been “prenationalistic” movements, the products of local grievances. By contrast, the nationalism of the early 20th century was the product of the new ...
2 days ago · Nepal is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural state, with Nepali as the official language. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the Indian subcontinent, the era in ancient Nepal when Hinduism was founded, the predominant religion of the country.
4 days ago · History of Latin America - Independence, Revolutions, Nations: After three centuries of colonial rule, independence came rather suddenly to most of Spanish and Portuguese America. Between 1808 and 1826 all of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian powers who had ruled the region since the conquest. The rapidity and timing of ...
5 days ago · Memorial Day, in the United States, holiday (observed the last Monday in May) honoring those who have died in the nation’s wars. It originated during the American Civil War when citizens placed flowers on the graves of those who had been killed in battle. Learn more about Memorial Day.
3 days ago · Order of independence of African nations, 1950–2011. The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War. Colonial governments gave way to sovereign states in a process often marred by violence, political turmoil, widespread unrest, and organised revolts.
