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Historical Event on 5/3/1977
Hamid Dalwai, father of Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal in Maharashtra, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/2/1994 | Three British hostages freed in Saharanpur, UP, after a fierce encounter. |
| 11/8/1919 | Madan Theatres Ltd. was founded under a Joint Stock Company at Calcutta. Their maiden venture 'Bilwamangal' was released on November 8, 1919 at the Cornwallis Theatre, Calcutta. |
| 8/22/1933 | Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years. |
| 4/5/1944 | 221 Advance Base Depots laid down their lives to repulse several waves of Japanese attacks and succeeded in safe evacuation of Ordnance stores to an alternate site. |
| 10/1/1990 | Supreme Court stays implementation of Mandal Commission recommendations. |
| 4/20/1997 | Sheri Bamboat and Hamshad Bamboat win National sea-bird sailing title. |
| 3/18/1924 | Madhusudhan Ramachandra Rege, cricketer (15 runs in only Test India v WI 1948-49), was born in Panvel, Maharashtra. |
| 2/19/1919 | Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born. |
| 12/23/1992 | Varma Commission indicts IB, the Centre and Tamil Nadu police for failure to protect Rajiv Gandhi. |
| 1/31/1958 | First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy. |
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