1 August
On this day in 1980
Khalistan Flag Hoisted for the first time
The Sikh Youth Organisation, Dal Khalsa, hoisted the flag of Khalistan at the very spot where 13 GurSikhs fell martyr while defending the Guru Khalsa Panth against the Nirankaris, on April 13, 1978.
Also on this day
- 1863Maharani Jind Kaur, mother of Maharaja Dalip Singh, passed away in Kaesington, England and was cremated in Nasik Nagar on the outskirts of Bombay, India She was arrested by the British government in 1847 and imprisoned at the Shaekhpura fort. After numerous efforts, she managed to join Maharaja Dalip Singh in England. She was by Lord Dalhousie as "the only woman in the Punjab with manly understandings."
- 1944The Working Committee of the All Parties Sikh Conference met at Amritsar It held that the C. Rajagopalachari’s formula "was mainfestly unfair and detrimental to the best interests of the country and the Sikh Community." It regarded Gandhi’s approval of the same as "breach of faith" on the part of the Congress leaders and violative of assurances to the Sikhs "at its Lahore session in 1929".
- 1981Through Aug. 2, the All Canada Sikh Convention was held in Calgary that gave the Canadian Sikhs a national body, "Federation of Sikh Societies of Canada" Specific resolutions at the conference took the shape of projects for the first time.