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Historical Event on 1/3/1996

Bomb blast kills six and seriously wounds 20. Jammu and Kashmir Islamic Front claim responsibility in Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/25/1999The curtains came down on the fifth National Games. Manipur won the overall championship while swimmers Nisha Millet of Karnataka and Sebastian Xavier of Kerala were adjudged the best sportswoman and sportsman respectively.
2/25/1977Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun.
4/9/1695Waman Pandit, famous pandit poet, took samadhee at Bhogav.
3/22/1977Ayillyath Kuttiari Goplan, freedom fighter, social reformer and Marxist leader, passed away in Trivandrum.
1/16/1992For the first time in a decade, India decides to import one million tonnes of wheat.
12/17/1990N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
1/2/1992Central Ministers Cabinet approved that elections will take place after the death of any independent candidate.
4/12/1978India's first double decker train was started between Victoria Terminus (CST) and Pune which beared the name as ""Janta Express"", which is now known under the name of Shivaji's fort as ""Singhgarh Express"".
11/14/1995National Human Rights Commission's conference on 'Human Rights in Prisons' begins in New Delhi.
12/10/1878Muhammad Ali Jauhar, great eminent journalist, editor, orator, fighter and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, was born at Najibabad, UP.