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Historical Event on 3/5/1948
C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/20/1981 | Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis. |
| 7/29/1980 | India won Gold Medal in Hockey at Moscow Olympics. |
| 7/29/1980 | Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same. |
| 11/19/1991 | Two national commissions on women set up. |
| 2/5/1630 | Har Rai, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 12/8/1999 | The Opposition attacks Prime Minister Vajpayee for ""withholding'' information on ministers' resignation. |
| 10/6/1997 | Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title. |
| 1/16/2000 | P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad. |
| 7/5/1916 | Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore. |
| 11/21/1961 | Communist China announced a cease-fire in its border war with India and said it would withdraw its troops 12 miles behind the boundary lines that existed in 1959. China said it was making the move to end the hostilities and to implement proposals it had made in October to settle the border dispute. Before the ceasefire, Chinese troops had seized the Indian headquarters at Bomdila near Tibet and were threatening the Indian state of Assam. Faced with defeat on the border and a Chinese invasion, the Indian government said it would ""respond positively"" to the Chinese offer of a ceasef |
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