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Historical Event on 3/5/1948
C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1873 | Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta. |
| 11/7/1971 | India admits forces entered Bangladesh to silence artillery. |
| 11/7/1971 | Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi. |
| 3/29/1849 | Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar. |
| 9/21/1966 | Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia. |
| 9/21/1966 | Iltutmish, father of Radiya Sultan, died in Delhi. |
| 12/5/1905 | Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, was born in Soura, Srinagar, Kashmir. |
| 6/21/1948 | C. Rajagopalachari was appointed the first Indian Governor General of Indian union (21/06/1948-25/01/1950). After January 25, 1950, this post was abolished. |
| 1/2/1960 | Raman Lamba, Cricketer was Born |
| 9/22/2000 | Kerala High Court suspends the sentence awarded by the Kottayam Special Court on 32 accused in the Suryanelli rape case. |
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