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Historical Event on 3/7/1942

Umesh Narayan Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in four Tests 1967-68), was born in Alibaug, Maharashtra.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/7/1942Shahaji Raje Bhosale, father of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was born.
10/23/1985Rajiv Gandhi went to New York for the 40th anniversary of the UN.
2/1/1831The first Fine Arts Exhibition by Brush Club was held in a Public Library of Calcutta.
12/31/1738Lord Charles Cornvalis, Governor General of India (1786-1793), was born.
5/15/1989NAL's 0.6 m transonic wind tunnel is commissioned. Total project cost is about Rs 20 million.
10/26/1969Neil Armstrong, the first men to land on Moon by 'Apollo II ', and Edwin Aldrin came to Bombay.
8/30/1979Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'.
1/31/1949Maharajas of Baroda and Kolhapur decide to merge their states with Bombay.
7/10/1977The Planning Commission decides to introduce Rolling Plan concept.
3/27/1990A 10-member Progressive Democratic Front Ministry led by Churchill Alemao sworn in Goa.