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Historical Event on 3/8/1999
The President formally revokes the proclamation imposing Central rule in Bihar after this was decided by the Union Cabinet earlier in the day.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/11/1991 | Forty die in rioting in Srinigar, Kashmir. |
| 4/7/1818 | British Government imposed 'State Prisoners Regulation III -1818' for detention and deportion of political prisoners and revolutionaries without any trial. This black act was in force till 1947 when India got independence. |
| 1/18/1992 | Muthuswami Pillai, father of Bharat Natyam classical dance, passed away. |
| 2/2/1958 | Family tradition still counts for something in Indian politics. Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the granddaughter of a statesman, has been elected president of the Congress party in India. Mrs. Gandhi will be installed into her new office next Sunday, and her job is not expected to be an easy one. The Congress party has been wracked by internal dissension and has been on the verge of collapse. It is hoped that Mrs. Gandhi, who is 41, will breath some new life into the party. Most of the politicians who have been arguing about the future of their party and country are fairly old. Mrs. Gandhi, who is known for her leftist sentiments, is expected to act quickly to put her own mark on party policies. |
| 6/3/1998 | The naval version of the surface-to-air missile, Trishul, is test-fired in Kochi. |
| 3/3/1707 | Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First. |
| 5/20/1964 | P. T. Usha, famous sprinter, was born. |
| 10/11/1876 | Saint Gadgebaba, Bengali story writer and novelist, was born. |
| 2/28/1712 | Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession. |
| 1/4/1909 | Prabhakar Padhye, modern Marathi litterateur, was born. |
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