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Historical Event on 3/1/1909
First Indian Iron Company 'Tata Iron and Steel' established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/16/1931 | Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time. |
| 3/28/1994 | G-15 summit opens with only six heads of Government in New Delhi. |
| 10/13/1781 | A treaty was singed between the Britishers and ruler of Gwalior, Scindia. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 12/4/1999 | Uman J. Shah is sworn in West Bengal Governor. |
| 8/1/1932 | Meena Kumari, film actress, was born. |
| 5/27/1906 | Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika Day. |
| 2/16/1932 | Sibnath Banerjee, trade union movement leader, passed away. He founded several organisation like Congress Socialist Party, A.I.T.U.C. and Hind Mazdoor Sabha, etc. |
| 8/7/1868 | Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, was born. |
| 7/1/1997 | Over 23,000 blowdowns completed in 1.2 m tunnel. |
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