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Historical Event on 4/3/1987
S.H. Vatsyayan passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/9/1992 | Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns. |
| 5/15/1999 | The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance. |
| 1/2/1947 | Mahatma Gandhi met Lord Bevin, the personal emissary of British Prime Minister Winston Churchil, in Delhi. Beven is reported to have told the great man, ''Eighteen languages, 500 dialects, some 30 religions, a million Gods and Goddesses, 300 million individuals, an infinity of castes and sub castes, and a population (that is) practically illiterate and half of which (are) beggars or thieves... Good luck, sir! Such a nation is ungovernable! It'd take you centuries to get anywhere!''. Gandhiji wrapped his large, white shawl a little more closely around him, and modestly replied, 'India has eternity before her.. and ""All around me is utter darkness"". |
| 12/29/1949 | Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras. |
| 12/6/1987 | MiG-29, re-christened `Baaz', inducted into the Indian Air Force. |
| 4/5/1957 | The first Communist ministry in a state was installed in Kerala. |
| 10/24/1954 | Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died. |
| 1/22/1986 | Indira Gandhi Rajbhasha Awards instituted. |
| 1/5/1998 | 60 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 8/17/1996 | CBI seizes another Rs. 65 lakhs from Sukh Ram's residence. |
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