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Historical Event on 3/8/1957
Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, prominent leader in Maharashtra and former Chief Minister of Mumbai province, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/19/1993 | Sanjay Dutt, film star, was held under TADA for possessing an AK-56 rifle. |
| 12/30/1993 | Government gets majority when 10 members of Ajit faction of the JD merge with the Congress. |
| 10/24/1827 | Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born |
| 8/30/1659 | Aurangzeb plotted the death of his brother Dara Shikoh and beheaded him. He was buried in a vault under the dome of Humayun's tomb. |
| 4/2/1948 | Defence Minister announces the establishment of the National War Academy in Kharakvasla, Poona. |
| 9/12/1998 | India, Malaysia sign an agreement on cooperation in science and technology in Kuala Lumpur. |
| 6/3/1972 | First British designed Indian built mordern warship of the Leander class, 'INS Nilgiri' commissioned Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was completely made in Mazgaon Dock, Mumbai. |
| 8/12/1868 | Frederick JNT Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of British-India (1916-21), was born. |
| 6/27/1906 | Establishment of `Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad'. |
| 4/4/1938 | A. M. Chakrabarty was born in Sainthia at West Bengal. He found that under the optimum conditions of time, temperature and nutrients the Hydrocarbon-eating "qualities'' of four diffrent strains of bacteria could be transferred into one. He also showed that this super-strain of bacteria reproduces itself. |
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