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Historical Event on 9/3/1953
Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 9/17/1864 | Anagrik Dharmapal, religious reformer, was born. |
| 9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
| 4/16/1963 | Gopal Singh Nepali, famous poet, passed away. |
| 4/16/1963 | Sultan Mehmood completely destroyed the Temple of Somnath. |
| 6/28/1991 | K. Doraiswamy, a senior executive of the Indian Oil Corporation, was kidnapped by Kashmir ultras. |
| 6/24/1991 | Jayalalitha ministry sworn in in Tamil Nadu. |
| 1/28/1998 | All 26 accused, who stood trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, were sentenced to death. A designated Judge of the TADA court in Chennai found them guilty. |
| 1/14/1946 | Two jetties collapse in Ganges; 160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed. |
| 5/11/1885 | Krishnamohan Bandopadhyay, leader, essay writer and journalist of Bengal, passed away. |
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