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Historical Event on 9/3/1987
Vishwanathan Anand, 17, becomes India's first and the world's youngest Grandmaster.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/23/1898 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born. |
| 10/14/1989 | Election Commission accepted Shiv Sena as a political party. |
| 12/12/1921 | Gandhi organizes a complete boycott of Prince of Wales's visit to Allahabad. |
| 1/22/1998 | Second Lieutenant Punit Datta is posthumously selected for the nation's highest peace time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra. |
| 1/23/1919 | Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi drama writer, comedy writer and poet, passed away. |
| 2/11/1818 | Britishers captured the 'Ajinkyatara' fort which belonged to the Marathas. |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 5/17/1873 | Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta. |
| 12/15/1999 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, arrives in Berlin to attend G-20 meet. |
| 1/31/1997 | INS Vikrant, Indian Navy's first aircraft carrier, de-commissioned. |
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