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Historical Event on 1/3/1996

Karnataka agrees to release 6 tmc ft. of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, bowing to PM's order.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/14/1880Satish Chandra Dasgupta, rural Scientist, was born.
7/6/1955Marshall Tito and Nehru's joint declaration in Belgrade.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.
11/24/1991Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections.
6/17/2000Danial Latifi (83), well known jurist and senior Supreme Court advocate, died of cancer in New Delhi.
1/16/1997Dr. Datta Samant, Trade Union leader, shot dead in Mumbai.
8/6/1991Ramakrishna Hegde disqualified as MLA.
2/11/1979Cellular Jail, which is situated at Andaman Nikobar Islands, was declared as a National Memorial.
7/10/1991C. G. Pandit, famous scientist and Padmabhushan awardee, died.
7/14/1994Veerappan, Sandalwood smuggler, declared 'proclaimed offender'.