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Historical Event on 3/4/1951
Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.

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1/24/1995	Congress (I) suspends Arjun Singh from the party.
9/7/1988	President's rule in Mizoram.
2/13/1601	John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London.
7/21/1883	Star Theatre was opened in Calcutta.
8/30/1903	Bhagwati Charan Varma was born.
5/2/1953	40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
2/8/1986	Sister Alphonsa was beatified by his Holiness Pope John-ll at Kottayam. She was the first woman from India to be raised to this honour. (19-7-96).
1/9/1976	President suspends seven freedoms guaranteed by Article 19 of the Constitution.
11/8/1988	Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize.
2/4/1990	Ernakulam was declared the first totally literate district in India.

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Historical Event on 3/4/1951 Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.

Historical Event on 3/4/1951
Eleven countries and 489 male and female athletes participated in the first Asian Games started at National Stadium in New Delhi.