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Historical Event on 10/30/1996

ITC $100 million scam, the country's biggest ever FERA violation case, was unearthed by the Enforcement Directorate.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/5/1992Sunder, comedy actor, passed away.
5/27/1997Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta.
12/23/1926Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid.
9/3/1906Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'.
1/30/1882Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great leader and social reformer, was born at Hyde Park, New York.
8/7/1906First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee.
6/30/1984W. R. Dhavle, editor, died.
6/30/1984
4/23/1913Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born.
7/30/1987Rajiv Gandhi escaped an attack on him at Colombo.