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[1] [2] It affected most of the Salt River Valley in Maricopa County, Arizona, and caused damaged to the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa. [3] [4] [5] The river swelled to over 3 miles wide and caused significant damage, including the destruction of a railroad bridge. [1] The flood was a major precursor to the formation of the Salt River ...
The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the Second Round Table Conference in London. [1] Before this, Irwin , the Viceroy, had announced in October 1929 a vague offer of ' dominion status ' for India in an unspecified future and a Round Table Conference ...
The bust of C.F. Andrews over his grave, in Lower Circular Road Christian Cemetery – Kolkata (earlier Calcutta) Andrews had been involved in the Christian Social Union since university, and was interested in exploring the relationship between a commitment to the Gospel and a commitment to justice, through which he was attracted to struggles for justice throughout the British Empire ...
In the Phoenix area, besides the Center Street Bridge, which opened on Central Avenue in 1911, [1] it was one of two crossings at the Salt River for some time. Water flowed down the Salt River until the 1940s, when dams were constructed upstream. The water flow almost ceased, creating a dry river bed to support the growing Southwest. For years ...
On January 26, 1931, Gandhi and other Congress leaders were freed from prison. The resulting discussions culminated in the Gandhi–Irwin Pact (1931) under which the Congress agreed to participate in a Second Round Table Conference. Although MacDonald was still Prime Minister of Britain, he was by this time heading a coalition Government (the ...
Indian River County assessing damage and plotting course of action in wake of Hurricane Milton and 'unprecedented' tornadoes
Mahatama Gandhi was also arrested and sentenced to six years of imprisonment but was later released in February 1924, on grounds of his ill health. [ 6 ] Jawaharlal Nehru and most of the workers of the Congress, who were in prison when Gandhi made this decision, felt that this was a hasty and incorrect decision at a time when the nation was ...
SAN FRANCISCO – The second in a trio of atmospheric river storms blasted Northern California on Tuesday with heavy rain, damaging wind gusts, feet of mountain snow, and even severe thunderstorms ...