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Historical Event on 8/3/1960
Gopal Sharma, great Indian cricket off-spinner (2 Tests 1984-85), was born in Kanpur.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
7/1/1992 | Central Railway started special train for ladies in Mumbai. |
8/8/1972 | Olympics open at Munich (26). |
9/27/1856 | Pratap Narayan Mishra, Hindi writer, was born. He is one of the pioneers of mordern Hindi language. |
11/9/1980 | P. C. Joshi, former General Secretary of Indian Communist Party, passed away. |
4/7/1993 | Narsimha Rao,PM, arrives in Bangkok on a three-day visit to Thailand. |
6/18/1966 | California's hippie subculture converged into a mass of long hair, flowers, and rock music this weekend, as 50,000 flowed into the fairgrounds of the Monterey International Pop Festival. The event featured the largest collection of major rock acts ever assembled; thousands of fans had to be turned away from the sold-out concert. Established artists such as the Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, and the Mamas and the Papas received the expected ovations from the huge audience. But the response was equally enthusiastic for performances by Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar and new talents Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix, a young man who played the electric guitar like nobody else. |
7/9/1996 | A Delhi court summoned former Prime Minister Narsimha Rao to face trial as an accused in the Lakhubhai Pathak cheating case in which godman Chandraswami was already facing trial. |
3/21/1998 | Jaswant Singh is appointed Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission after the resignation of Prof. Madhu Dandavate. |
11/12/1958 | Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival. |
2/23/1996 | North-Eastern Development Finance Corporation inaugurated. |
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