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Historical Event on 7/3/1997
Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/23/1980 | Prakash Padukone becomes the first Indian to win All-England Badminton Championship. |
| 8/25/1965 | Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89), was born in Delhi. |
| 5/9/1995 | Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 12/11/1931 | Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", guru of the rich, was born. |
| 9/9/1941 | Syed Abid Ali, great Indian medium pace-bowler and all-rounder, was born at Hyderabad. |
| 9/18/1993 | Asit Sen, famous comedy actor and character artist, died. |
| 7/21/1988 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3. |
| 9/7/1988 | President's rule in Mizoram. |
| 10/16/1983 | Harish Chandra, great Indian scientist, died. His work in a narrow branch of modern mathematics led to its developement to such an extent that it drew the attention of mathematicians all over the world. |
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