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Historical Event on 3/1/1990

JD secures four-fifth majority in Orissa Assembly elections; Biju Patnaik becomes the new CM.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/1/1969India's first Atomic Energy Reactor started at Tarapore.
5/8/1930Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.
10/31/1975Sachin Dev Burman, famous music director, died.
5/27/1997Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta.
3/31/1977N. K. Mukarji was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1980.
9/29/1981Delhi-Srinagar Indian Airlines Boeing 737 flight was diverted to Lahore, Pakistan by five Khalistan activists of the Dal Khalsa International. On board there were 117 passengers out of which 66 were freed on arrival in Lahore.
3/22/1933M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.
10/26/1950Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1981), was born in Madras.
7/12/1932The 16,000-foot Shyok ice dam in the Himalayas bursts flooding the Indus Valley at Kashmir.
5/4/1998India is placed on the US Special 309 watch list.