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Historical Event on 3/2/1957

Central Warehouse Corporation established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/18/1879Venketeshwar Bachhali, famous physics scientist, was born.
2/28/1988Jaydev, famous music director, passed away.
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
5/4/1980Coal Mine Worker's Day established.
11/16/1958India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.
1/12/1995Kerala's birthrate drops to 17.5 per 1000.
1/12/1995Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.
12/13/2000Vikram Sood is appointed new RAW Chief.
12/16/1921Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation started tunnel construction under Hoogly river.
1/30/1948Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the spiritual leader of Indian independence, was shot and killed by a Hindu extremist. The 78-year-old Gandhi was shot at point-blank range as he was walking through a garden to a pergola, where he was to deliver his daily prayer meeting.