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Historical Event on 3/1/1909

First Indian Iron Company 'Tata Iron and Steel' established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/21/1990Prasar Bharati Bill moved in the Lok Sabha .
10/29/1947Mysore's popular ministry sworn in.
4/23/1938Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.
5/9/1995Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt.
4/2/1926The worst Hindu-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.
8/7/1905The first political documentary ootage was the Great Bengal Partition Movement: Meeting and Procession shot by Jyotish Sarkar and Jamshedji F. Madan in Calcutta.
4/1/1962Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government.
1/20/1993Captain Karamjeet Singh, first Pramveer Chakra Awardee, passed away.
7/29/1984Troops were sent to Hyderabad to quell communal riots.
5/7/1994Ustad Jahiruddin Dagar Nasir, famous classical singer of Dhrupad-Dhamar, passed away at the age of 62 in Bareilly.