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Historical Event on 8/3/1991

About 280 kgs of gold ornaments valued at $15 million, which had been deposited in the Portuguese bank in Goa by its natives, flown back to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/30/1990Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff.
1/23/1977Janata Party was formed. Congress Sangathan, Jansangh, Bhartiya Lokdal and Samajwadi Party decided to merge and create Janata Party.
2/2/1982Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also.
3/21/1995Lok Sabha passes Patent Bill by amending the Patent (Amendment) Act 1970.
10/28/1997Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore.
4/13/1994United Arab Emirates lost to India in its first official ODI.
5/2/1908Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
1/10/1980President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy invited Indira Gandhi to form Government.
4/29/1909Tukdoji Maharaj, social reformer, modern Saint and poet, was born at Yavli in Amravati district, Maharashtra.
10/31/2000The Income Tax Department 'indicts' five cricketers - Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar, Nikhil Chopra and Ajay Sharma - for tax evasion and concealment of income earned through ""dubious sources'