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Historical Event on 3/3/1982

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

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3/16/1998Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party.
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4/8/1674Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj honoured Hansaji Mohite with the degree of 'Hambirrao' and appointed him as Chief General of his Army.
5/8/1992Eighth Plan outlay increased to Rs. 7,98,000 crores; Public Sector outlay goes up to 45\%.
9/5/1979Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.
9/29/2000A special court convicted former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his then cabinet colleague Buta Singh in the JMM MPs' bribery case. Nine others got benefit of doubt.
7/29/1911Mohan Bagan became the first Indian football team to win the I.F.A. Shield.
5/13/1994Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament.
12/23/1995The crew of the seized aircraft in Bombay confess dropping of arms at Purulia.
11/27/1994Shyam Vyas, veteran Hindi story writer, passed away.