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Historical Event on 3/3/1997
Senior Officials Meeting of Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries begins in Mauritius.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/1/1986 | Delhi beat Haryana by innings and 141 runs to win the Ranji Trophy. |
| 9/20/1999 | Shobha Subrahmanyam, managing director of the Ananda Bazaar Patrika Group of publications, was elected President of the Indian Newspaper Society for 1999-2000. |
| 11/8/1965 | Bashiruddin Ahmad, religious leader and litterateur, passed away. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 12/4/1997 | Lok Sabha was dissolved with immediate effect and new House was to be constituted by March 15 next. |
| 8/20/1991 | India's Ambassador to Romania J.F.Ribeiro shot by Sikh extremists in Bucharest. |
| 7/1/1862 | Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair. |
| 1/3/1975 | Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier. |
| 3/21/1937 | Muhammad Jaffer, great Indian Hockey player, was born. |
| 1/29/1948 | Angry refugees ask Gandhiji to retire to the Himalayas. |
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