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Historical Event on 9/3/1994
The government decides to disinvest government holding in 21 Public Sector Units including ITI, IOC and ITDC.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/18/2000 | India and the US resume talks to narrow their differences on the CTBT. |
| 3/20/1921 | Dr. P. C. Alexander, Governor of Maharashtra, was born. |
| 3/16/1880 | Parshuram Rajshekhar Basu, famous Bengali writer, was born. |
| 2/27/1996 | Manmohan Singh presents the vote-on-account as part of the interim budget in Lok Sabha for 1996-97 with a Rs. 5000 crore deficit. |
| 8/20/1991 | Indian Oil Executive Director K. Doraiswamy released after 52 days of being in the custody of Kashmir ultras. |
| 4/5/1908 | Babu Jagjivan Ram, valiant freedom fighter, was born in Chandwa village in Bhojpur, Bihar. He held many prominent ministerial portfolios such as Communications Minister (1952-56), Railway Minister (1956-62), Food and Agriculture Minister (1967-70) and Defence Minister (1970-74). After 1977, he became the Deputy Prime Minister (Defence) in Janta regime. Thereafter, he established Congress (J). His uninterrupted representation in the Parliament from 1936 to 1986 is a world record. This day is commemorated as ""Samta Diwas"". |
| 7/4/1897 | Alluri Seetaram Raju, freedom fighter, was born in a Kshatriya clan in Andhra Pradesh. He is rememberred as one of the great sons of India in the annals of Indian history who fought valiantly for his motherland in the early period of the freedom movement. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 1/29/1997 | Fire engulfs most of the three top floors of the Express Towers, skyrise building owned by Indian Express group in Mumbai. |
| 3/4/1879 | Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India. |
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