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Historical Event on 3/5/1948

C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/15/1908Stock Exchange of Calcutta was opened of Baldeodas Daduawala and Overened.
12/28/1932Britain says it is to release 28,000 prisoners, including Gandhi.
6/23/1895Kali Charan Ghosh, great Hindi writer, was born at Calcutta.
2/20/1929K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu.
1/6/1983Indian National Congress lost for the first time in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka State Assembly Elections.
3/18/1992Shreyanprasad Jain, famous philanthropist and industrialist, passed away.
1/14/1964Bapu Nadkarni bowled 32-27-5-0 vs England, 21 maiden overs in a row.
9/21/1984National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources and National Institute of Animal Genetics were set up. These institutes were initially located in the campus of southern regional station of National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore. They were then shifted to Karnal in July 1985.
10/2/1904Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India (1964-66), was born in Mughalsarai near Benaras in Uttar Pradesh.
4/15/1975Janata Party's `People's March' to Parliament.