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Historical Event on 3/3/1989
Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/6/1987 | Jaidev, famous music director, passed away. |
| 2/11/1959 | Vinoo Mankad plays his final Test Cricket (vs West Indies at Delhi). |
| 8/28/1733 | Sekhoji (Jaysingrao) Angre, famous naval officer of Maratha navy, passed away. |
| 8/28/1733 | Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India. |
| 8/27/1958 | Metric system of weights and measures introduced. |
| 1/9/1919 | Theophane A. Mathias, educationist, was born. |
| 11/24/1930 | Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar, cricketer ( wicket keeper in one Test India vs NZ 1955-56), was born in Pen, Maharashtra. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 7/8/1985 | Sri Lanka Peace talks open in Thimphu. |
| 3/5/1916 | Biju Patnaik, famous Oriya leader and Chief Minister, was born. |
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