Today is the Non-Cooperation Movement Day. The non-cooperation movement was launched on this day in 1920. It was aimed to resist British rule in India through nonviolent means. <br/><br/>Protestors would refuse to buy British goods, adopt the use of local handicrafts and picket liquor shops.<br/><br/>The ideas of Ahimsa and nonviolence, and Gandhi's ability to rally hundreds of thousands of common citizens towards the cause of Indian independence, were first seen on a large scale in this movement. <br/><br/>This was a bereaved day when early in the morning, the news of death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak arrived. A crowd of around two lakh people paid its respect to this Maker of Modern India.