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Historical Event on 10/3/1906
Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/12/1959 | Krishnammachari Srikkanth, cricketer (big-hitting Indian opener 1981-92), was born in Madras. |
| 12/28/1885 | Allian Octavian Hume, a Scotsman, founded National Union and it held its first meeting in Bombay Tejpal Hall. The first session of Indian National Congress started under the Presidentship of Vyomesh Chandra Banerjee. |
| 3/4/1919 | Jagtindar Nath Beri, physics expert, was born. |
| 2/19/1994 | Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration. |
| 11/1/1858 | Her Majesty Queen Victoria was no longer amused with the Company's loss of control, and India came directly under the Crown of 'Princes, Chiefs and People of India'. Britain Government took over administrative powers from East India Company to rule India. |
| 5/20/1850 | Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, father of modern story writing in Marathi, was born. |
| 4/15/1948 | Indian territory of Himachal Pradesh was created by the merger of some 30 small ruling states. |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 4/18/1904 | Ramnath Goenka, president and founder of Indian Express Group, was born. |
| 7/2/1999 | In Jammu and Kashmir, nine people are killed by unidentified militants. |
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