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Historical Event on 3/7/1921

Kulwant Singh Virk, famous Hindi writer and journalist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/1997N. V. N. Somu, Union Minister of State for Defence and president of The Hindu Office and National Press Employees Union from 1969, died in Army Helicopter crash at Tezpur in Arunachal Pradesh.
6/26/1888Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, was born.
4/4/1998G. Sarala Devi, 62, CPI leader and general secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women, passed away in Hyderabad.
1/19/1995Prof. Armaity Desai, eminent Sociologist, appointed the new UGC Chairperson.
1/24/1958First international Film Festival started in Mumbai.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
10/16/1968Hargovind Khorana, Indian scientist, was awarded 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology on man-made synthetic gene.
2/4/1757Lord Clive remained unsuccessful after sending two ambassadors to make treaty with Siraj -Ud -Daula, while he was marching towards Calcutta.
8/21/1972A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction.
3/4/1879Bethune' College of Calcutta was established as the pioneer of women s college education in India.