ON 30 JUNE IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on June 30, 2018
1857: In India, Battle of Chinhat lost by the British
https://www.tornosindia.com/the-battle-of-chinhat/
https://bloggingonhistory.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-battle-of-chinhat-beginning-of-the-epic-lucknow-siege/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chinhat
1914: Mahatma Gandhi’s first arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1917: Death of Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian intellectual, educator and early political leader, born on September 4, 1825
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/dadabhai-naoroji.html
1943: Birth of Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Akhtar_Mirza
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0592595/
1943: Birth of Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi author, poet, and critic who died on July 28, 2001
http://www.poemhunter.com/ahmed-sofa/biography/
1965: Agreement between India and Pakistan to stop hostilities in Kutch Desert
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/june-30-1965-a-ceasefire-is-agreed-under-un-auspices-between-india-and-pakistan-to-stop-the-war-at-the-rann-of-kutch
1996: New general elections in Bangladesh under a caretaker government headed by Justice Habibur Rahman. Victory of the Awami League
2004: Death of Jamal Abro, Pakistani writer, born on May 2, 1924
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Abro
http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-jamal_abro.html
2007: In Bangladesh, General Ershad quits the chairmanship of Jatiya Party and retires
2007: Death of Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi born in 1943
http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=88869
2010: Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal announces his resignation in a televised speech. He says that he wanted to bring an end to political deadlock in the country and move the peace process forward
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10464705.stm
2011: Pakistan has stopped the United States from using an air base in the southwest of the country which it is alleged to have used to launch controversial drone strikes, according to the country’s defence minister.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/06/20116304212789309.html
2011: The Bangladeshi parliament has overturned a 15-year-old requirement that general elections are overseen by non-partisan caretaker governments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13973576