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Historical Event on 7/3/1956
Pandit Nehru and New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Sidney Holland are given the freedom of the City at London.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/23/1996 | Sitaram Kesri elected provisional president of Congress (I). |
| 2/7/1908 | Manmanath Gupta was born. |
| 11/25/1987 | India all out for 75 vs West Indies at Delhi. Patterson took 5-24. |
| 7/18/1980 | Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit. |
| 8/20/1909 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar. |
| 7/16/1969 | Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/01/1973. |
| 8/5/1909 | Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 9/29/2000 | Tata Ramachandra Prasad to be the next Cabinet Secretary. |
| 5/28/1970 | All India Trade Union Congress was divided. |
| 7/11/1957 | Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League. |
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