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Historical Event on 7/3/1987
The Festival of India in the USSR, to be inaugurated, is the largest cultural manifestation to be held by our country.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/21/2000 | Uma Bharti, the sanyasin Member of Parliament of the BJP, resigns from the Lok Sabha and the party's national executive comittee. |
| 12/16/1867 | Amy Carmichael, Scotch Irish missionary, was born. She went to India in 1895 under the Zenana Missionary Society, remaining there without furlough until her death 56 years later. An invalid during her last 20 years, she worked to rescue children from the Hindus. |
| 1/21/1943 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police. |
| 2/8/1971 | Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi, writer, administrator, leader and founder of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, died. |
| 3/20/1782 | Colonel James Tod, author and researcher of Rajput history, was born. |
| 4/8/1831 | Ram Mohan Roy landed in England. |
| 8/25/1948 | Jana Gana Mana to be the provisional National Anthem till Constituent Assembly made a final decision. |
| 10/19/1970 | First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 6/2/1988 | Raj Kapoor, famous film actor, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away. |
| 9/25/2000 | A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985. |
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