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Historical Event on 7/3/1979
Construction of the main second Howrah Bridge (Vidyasagar Setu) started.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/3/1979 | Pieter de Carpentier, flemish Governor General of Dutch East-Indies, was born. |
| 5/14/1992 | LTTE banned in India. |
| 3/1/1917 | Kartar Singh Duggal, famous author, was born at Dhamyal, Pakistan. |
| 1/6/1981 | Indian Ocean bed on their research ship Gavesani of the National Institute succeeded from the depth of 4,300 metres. |
| 3/10/2000 | Nitish Kumar, Bihar Chief Minister, submits his resignation without putting his motion of seeking a trust vote to test in the assembly. The RJD leader Rabri Devi meets the Governor and stakes claim to form the Government. |
| 7/16/1917 | Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born. |
| 4/22/1840 | James Princes, British research scientist and archeaologist, passed away. |
| 11/8/2000 | Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen. |
| 5/10/1999 | Tamil Nadu Government withdraws the controversial Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Bill. |
| 11/29/1961 | First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India. |
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