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Historical Event on 3/1/1903
Pareshchandra Bhattacharya, former Gonerner of Indian Reserve Bank, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/31/1966 | Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 9/6/1993 | CPI (M) wrests Congress (I) bastion of Chowringhee in the by-elections to the WB Assembly; Durgapur and Kurseong also won by CPI (M). |
| 1/29/1781 | First Newspaper, J.A.Hickey's Bengal Gazette - January 29, 1781. |
| 7/23/1993 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
| 6/22/1996 | Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord's on Test debut. |
| 8/8/1932 | Dada Kondke, famous Marathi actor, was born. |
| 8/19/1903 | Gangadhar Devram Khanolkar, biographer and critic, was born. |
| 10/4/1986 | Helicoptor Corporation of India established. |
| 5/11/1998 | Three momentous events took place on the day that did the nation proud. Firstly, three underground nuclear tests at Pokhran Range in Rajasthan, which included a hydrogen bomb, were tested; secondly, the successful test firing of the 'Trishul Missile' and thirdly, the maiden Certification test flight of 'Hansa-3', the first-all Composite indigenous two seater aircraft. |
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