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Historical Event on 3/7/1956

A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/19/1922Beant Singh, former Chief Minister of Punjab and politician, was born. He played a vital role in supressing terrorist activities in Punjab.
8/3/199835 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed.
8/2/1922Gangaprasad Birla, great industrialist, was born.
1/1/1967Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs West Indies cancelled by riots.
7/29/1901Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War.
10/2/1971Gandhi Sadan was handed over to the nation.
2/8/1986For the first time in the country, pre-paid taxi sevice scheme was established at New Delhi airport.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.
8/18/1700Bajirao I, the second peshwa, was born.
10/2/1910Frank C. Brown, educationist and social worker, was born.