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3 March - India on this day34 events

1839

Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.

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1847

Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland.

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1906

Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, was born.

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1906

Trailokyanath Goswami, famous Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Nalbari, Assam .

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1921

Ahmed Gulsher, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Satna (M.P).

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1934

Amarsingh Pandurang Rane, educationist, was born at Banage, Kolhapur.

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1939

Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alais Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties), was born in Secundrabad.

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1931

Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.

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1930

Untouchable people fought to enter the temple of 'Kala Rama' at Nasik.

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1999

Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar.

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1983

Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.

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1997

Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi.

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1997

Senior Officials Meeting of Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries begins in Mauritius.

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78

Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started.

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1859

A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.

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1891

Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created.

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1978

Origin of Saka Era (India).

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1996

Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas.

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1707

Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.

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1989

Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant.

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1575

A battle was fought at Turkra or Turkra Qasba (in the Balasore district) in which the Afghans were routed.

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1700

Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj died of lung infection due to smallpox at Sinhagad fort.

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1919

Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away.

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1948

B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away.

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1982

Firaq Gorakhpuri "Raghupati Sahay", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died.

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1871

Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent.

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1885

Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).

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1924

Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.

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1952

The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections.

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1967

India signed the International Space Treaty in Moscow.

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1990

JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan.

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1993

Sharad Pawar nominated CM of Maharashtra.

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1997

Indian Socialist Party headed by Arangil Sridharan merges with Lok Sakthi. It was floated by Ramakrishna Hedge.

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2000

Nitish Kumar, Samata Party leader, sworn in Bihar Chief Minister. Governor V.C. Pande's decision evokes widespread criticism.

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