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Historical Event on 3/3/1847
Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1918 | Lalita Pawar, famous actress of Indian film industry, was born. |
| 11/11/1675 | Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day. |
| 1/12/1918 | C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director, was born. |
| 8/12/1979 | Heavy rains resulted in bursting of a dam thus causing floods in Moorvi and Lilapur in Gujarat, killing over 1,335 people. |
| 5/20/1996 | CPI Leader Indrajit Gupta appointed pro-term speaker in the Lok Sahba. |
| 1/11/1859 | Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 7/29/1802 | Agreement between Gaikwad of Baroda and Britishers about the army. |
| 11/10/1848 | Surendranath Banerji, popularly known as Rashtraguru, was born at Taltala, Calcutta. He passed his final ICS Examination in 1869 and joined in 1871, He was President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad. |
| 1/9/1916 | Ramkrishna Ramnarayan Ruia, great industrialist, was born. |
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