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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 3/4/1858 |
J. P. Walker, British Officer, along with 200 prisoners who were mainly from the Indian Sepoy Mutiny, sailed from Calcutta to start a new settlement in the Andaman Islands. |
| 3/4/1879 |
Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India. |
| 3/4/1895 |
Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born. |
| 3/4/1906 |
Hakim Abdul Majid started his medial dispensary under the name of Hamdard Dawakhana at Delhi. |
| 3/4/1919 |
Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born. |
| 3/4/1924 |
Shyam Lal Gupt 'Parshad' wrote the song 'Jhanda Ooncha Rahe Hamara'. |
| 3/4/1925 |
Jyotirindranath Tagore, great Bengali litterateur and poet, passed away. |
| 3/4/1927 |
Dr. Laxminarayan Lal was born. |
| 3/4/1939 |
Lala Har Dayal, revolutionary, nationalist and freedom fighter, passed away at Philadelphia. |
| 3/4/1951 |
Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi. |
| 3/4/1961 |
First Indian aircraft carrier naval fighter vessel ''I.N.S. Vikrant'' was commissioned in Belfast. |
| 3/4/1990 |
Congress (I) gains absolute majority in Arunachal Pradesh; Gegong Apang CM. |
| 3/4/1990 |
Sunderlal Patwa (BJP) and D. Ramachandran (DMK) named CM's of Madhya Pradesh and Pondicherry respectively. |
| 3/4/1990 |
V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue. |
| 3/4/1991 |
Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents mid-term budget, cut in food and fertiliser subsidy, amounting to Rs. 934 crore, proposed. |
| 3/4/1994 |
Lech Walesa, Polish President, visit India. |
| 3/4/1995 |
Kakrapar nuclear power station's second unit located near Surat synchronised to the western grid after mandatory tests. |
| 3/4/1996 |
India and EU agree on a plan to boost trade ties. |
| 3/4/1996 |
King of Bhutan arrives in India for a three-day state visit. |
| 3/4/1996 |
Union govt. decides to set up a national grid for the distribution of petroleum products. |
| 3/4/1997 |
Govt. not to print Re. 1 , Rs. 2 & Rs. 5 currency notes any more, as these three denominations have been coinised. |
| 3/4/2000 |
Geeta Mukherjee (76), veteran communist leader, died of a massive heart attack in New Delhi. Popularly known as 'Geetadi', she won every Lok Sabha election from Panskura in West Bengal since 1980. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1959 | Power Project was signed betwen India and Nepal, an agreement on the Gandak Irrigation. |
| 4/24/1993 | Congress dissidents K. N. Singh, Natwar Singh, K. L. Fotedar and Shiela Dikshit suspended. |
| 7/4/1985 | Police inquiry said bombs caused Air India jet disaster in New Delhi. |
| 1/29/1912 | Judge A.N. Ray, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born. |
| 12/22/1928 | An Alpine Romance', a 709 feet long sound film produced by Universal Picture Corporation, America, was the first sound film censored at Bombay on December 22. The other sound films censored on the same day were 'The Brox Sisters' and 'Bailey and Barnum.' |
| 7/15/1967 | Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, passed away. |
| 7/20/1954 | Armistice for Indo-China signed. |
| 12/7/1998 | A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India. |
| 2/15/1924 | Shankarrao Bajirao Patil, great leader of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 2/13/1861 | Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks & defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians. |
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