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Historical Event on 9/3/1979
M. M. Bhatnagar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 14-06-1985.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1939 | Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention. |
| 8/16/1932 | Britain instituted new electoral plan for India: to allow limited untouchables and giving them separate representation. |
| 12/14/1968 | Chaggan Baba (Chagganlal Karamshi Parekh), great social worker and founder of Mahila Griha Udyog and Lijjat Papad, died. |
| 12/26/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi and Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq meet in Delhi and agree not to attack nuclear plants in each other's country. |
| 3/18/1922 | Mohandas K. Gandhi ""Mahatma,"" the great spirit, sentenced by British authorities to six years in prison for sedition at Sabarmati. Gandhi was sentenced just eight days after he was arrested. The British acted hastily after government officials in London and India were criticized for not arresting him sooner. In London, the Secretary of State for India was forced to resign because of the controversy over Gandhi. In India, the arrests of Gandhi and other Indian nationalists had only increased sympathy for their cause. |
| 5/18/1998 | India may take the US to WTO. |
| 7/6/1998 | Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian politician and presumed winner of the 1993 elections, died in Abuja. |
| 7/1/1938 | Hariprasad Chaursia, famous flute player, was born. |
| 12/11/1780 | Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay. |
| 11/17/1925 | Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born. |
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