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Historical Event on 3/7/1956

A gigantic steel tube plant opened in Jamshedpur. It was the first of its kind in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/3/1897Hansa Mehta, educationist and social reformer, was born at Surat (Gujarat).
12/26/1991Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India.
11/24/1952Brijesh Parsuram Patel, cricketer (Indian batsman 1974-77), was born in Baroda.
1/14/1926Mahashweta Devi was born at Jinda Bahar Lane, Dhaka.
6/6/1999Paes-Bhupathi bagged their maiden Grand Slam doubles crown, defeating Goran Ivanisevic and Jeff Tarango in the final.
8/27/1998India's cricket sensation Sachin Tendulkar has an audience with the legendary Sir Don Bradman at the latter's 90th birthday celebrations in Adelaide.
12/19/1917Ashoknath Banerjee, Governor of Karnataka, was born.
5/1/1973All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised.
3/29/1857Sepoy Mangal Pandey shot the first bullet of 1857 Indian mutiny in the barracks of Barrackpur near Calcutta against British Empire. This was the starting of the mutiny.
10/29/1952Amalgamation of the Steel Corporation of Bengal with Indian Iron and Steel Company Ltd. to be effective from 1st January 1953 under the latter's name.