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Historical Event on 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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 11/10/1994 | Dr. K. V. Putappa ""Kuvempu"", first Gyanpeet Awardee for literature and Kannad author, died at the age of 90 ye |
| 6/24/1908 | Gopinath, famous Kathakali dancer, was born. |
| 1/31/1986 | Shri Vishwanath More, famous music director, passed away. |
| 11/19/1994 | Lt. Gen. Shankar Roy Choudhury appointed Army Chief following the death of Gen. B.C. Joshi. |
| 9/3/1999 | Brigadier V. K. Chopra is appointed as the new head of the 121 (1) infantry brigade in Kargil. |
| 11/7/1990 | Lawrence Durrell, great Indian English and author (Mount Olive), passed away at the age of 78. |
| 8/5/1909 | Dwijhans Kalika Prasad Dixit, great poet and educationist, was born at Gram Dedani in Uttar Pradesh. |
| 2/23/1843 | Narendranath Sen, famous journalist, was born. |
| 5/2/1992 | President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges. |
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