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Historical Event on 12/3/1991

Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time .

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1995SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.
1/20/1879Raghunath Chaudhary, famous Assamia nature poet, was born.
6/8/1929Ventappa Musandra Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61), was born in Bangalore.
8/20/1909Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar.
2/20/1982The Kangla Tongbi war memorial built for 221 members of Advance Base Depot, who laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks, was finally shifted to College of Materials Management Jabalpur. The original memorial was erected on 15 Apr 1946 from local stone and the main epitaph displayed above is of black Naga stone.
7/25/1813First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed.
8/22/1994Two dozen Mahar soldiers were ambushed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia. Seven, including a JCO, lost their lives.
3/9/199314 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra .
7/21/1934Chandrakant Gulabrao Borde, cricket batsman (55 Tests for India 1959-67), was born in Pune.
8/9/1952New Delhi reports that 20 mil. Indian peasants were imperiled by crop failures.