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Historical Event on 3/8/1997

G. K. Moopanar unanimously elected first president of Tamil Maanila Congress.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/4/1993PM surveys the quake-hit villages and sanctioned Rs. 50 crore.
6/30/1823Sir Dinshaw Manokji Petit, famous industrialist, was born.
3/14/1999Arjun Atwal won the Indian Open Golf in Calcutta.
9/16/1955Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81.
2/12/1993The baggage rules relaxed further.
1/23/1919Govindagraj (Ram Ganesh Gadkari), great Marathi drama writer, comedy writer and poet, passed away.
6/20/1997Second round of Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan starts in Islamabad.
1/15/2000Baba Amte, social artist, receives Gandhi Peace Prize 1999, from the President K. R. Narayanan.
9/5/1659Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
3/17/1959Dalai Lama XIV flees from Tibet after Chinese military occupied Tibet.