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Historical Event on 9/3/1994
The government decides to disinvest government holding in 21 Public Sector Units including ITI, IOC and ITDC.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/5/1979 | Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma. |
| 3/25/1963 | Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away. |
| 2/1/1942 | Lt Col HT Hogan raised the Regiment at Malir Cantonment. |
| 6/2/1975 | Devendra Mohan Bose, famous Scientist of Physics, passed away. |
| 12/5/1943 | The Japanese planes attack Calcutta port. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 7/25/1986 | Sikh extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India. |
| 6/2/1955 | A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak. |
| 3/25/1991 | 1991 census report released; India has 844 million people. |
| 11/20/1998 | V. K. Sharma, chairman and managing director of JVG Group of Companies, who allegedly swindled Rs. 600 crores from investors, is arrested in Mumbai. |
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