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Historical Event on 7/3/1998
Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/7/1799 | Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers. |
| 5/15/1999 | The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance. |
| 6/5/1879 | Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Labour Union Movement in India, was born at Goregaon in the Kolaba district, Maharashtra. |
| 3/26/1980 | Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police). |
| 3/3/1885 | Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt). |
| 11/22/1989 | Rajindernath, great Indian wicketkeeper 1 Test and 0 runs 0 ct, 4 stp, passed away. |
| 8/8/1990 | Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation. |
| 3/28/1986 | Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India. |
| 3/27/1997 | Punjab men and Railway women win National volleyball league in Tiruppur. |
| 3/12/1930 | Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence. |
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