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Historical Event on 12/3/1948
Surendra Pratap Singh, famous journalist and chief editor of Navbharat Times, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/22/1946 | Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day. |
| 3/27/1977 | The government revoked the national Emergency promulgated on Dec. 3, 1971. |
| 7/21/1975 | Hindi Post Guards was established by Government. |
| 4/3/1994 | B. Rachaiah,Kerala Governor, takes charge of Goa. |
| 1/1/1973 | Indian General Insurance Corporation nationalised. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 7/29/1876 | Indian Science Congress Association was established in Bowbazar Street of Calcutta. |
| 1/2/1754 | Robert Clive again attacked and annexed Calcutta from Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah. |
| 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. |
| 10/1/1993 | Two more Election Commissioners appointed. |
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