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Historical Event on 3/3/1978
Origin of Saka Era (India).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/24/1996 | S. Korean President Kim Young Sam visits India. |
| 8/13/1951 | Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away. |
| 2/16/1927 | Rail service started between India and Nepal. |
| 11/7/1900 | Ranga N.G, professor and politician, was born. |
| 12/20/1946 | Gandhiji completes his month-long sojourn at Srirampur. |
| 1/8/1965 | Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History. |
| 5/17/1993 | Ravi Naik, Goa CM, resigns; Dy. CM Wilfred D'Souza elected to succeed. |
| 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"". |
| 11/24/1997 | Leander-Mahesh stumble at the final step, finish second in the World doubles tennis championships at Hartford. |
| 5/15/1817 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born. |
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