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Historical Event on 2/3/1997
Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1914 | The British India Steamship Co. and the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Co. announced their amalgamation at London. |
| 5/28/1903 | Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra). |
| 8/29/1956 | India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid. |
| 8/15/1994 | Sukumar Gupta, a socialist, dies. |
| 4/8/1997 | India creates history by entering the semi-finals of the 12th Jawaharlal Nehru Gold Cup international football series for the first time after holding Ghana 2-2 at Kochi. |
| 6/17/2000 | Danial Latifi (83), well known jurist and senior Supreme Court advocate, died of cancer in New Delhi. |
| 10/30/1977 | One hundred thousand Tamil Hindu tea-pickers, who were expatriated from Sri Lanka, are shipped to Madras, South India. |
| 2/20/2000 | Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court's order quashing charges framed against the former Chief Minister, Mr. S. Bangarappa, and directs the trial court to proceed in the corruption case. |
| 8/6/1997 | Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void. |
| 3/20/1993 | Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested. |
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