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Historical Event on 3/11/1997

Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/16/1946Britain invites Indian leaders to set up an interim govt at London.
2/23/1998BJP leader Ranjit Yadav was shot dead in Sahibganj district.
6/2/1908Sri Aurobindo, freedom fighter, was arrested in Manik Tala Bomb explosion case.
2/1/1994ONGC becomes a Public Limited Company.
9/2/1946Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
6/5/1998Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu writer, is presented the Jnanpeeth award for 1997.
5/10/1981The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay).
8/17/1909Madanlal Dhingra, famous revolutionary, was hanged at Paintanville Jail for assassinating Wyle and Lal Kaka.
4/10/1996The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt.