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Historical Event on 6/3/1997

Four women ministers (Renuka Choudhry, Kamala Sinha, Ratnamala Savanur & Jayanti Natarajan) join I K Gujral cabinet.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/21/1955Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away.
7/3/1992Avinash Ganesh Mohadikar, journalist and former editor of magzine `Vyapar Udyog', passed away.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
1/29/1998Suicide by more than 50 farmers reported in the Telangana region in the past few days.
2/16/1980The first visible Total Solar Eclipse of the 20th Century was seen. This succeeded the total solar eclipse after 22 June 1898.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
2/8/1994Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432.
3/31/1992Delhi beat Tamil Nadu in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy.
8/15/1997The Government bans doctors from determining the sex of the foetus.
4/26/1991Syed Shahabuddin filed nominations for two seats as a candidate of two different parties within 24 hours.