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Historical Event on 3/4/1997

Govt. not to print Re. 1 , Rs. 2 & Rs. 5 currency notes any more, as these three denominations have been coinised.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/14/1970Supreme Court holds nationalization of banks illegal. Presidential ordinance revalidates nationalization.
9/28/1929Lata Mangeshkar, great playback singer, was born.
3/25/1928S. R. Kulkarni, leader of dock workers, was born.
7/26/1844Gooroodas Banerjee was born in Calcutta. He was a Judge of Calcutta High Court.
11/5/1999The CBI arrests the Bihar Road Construction Minister Illiyas Hussain and conducts raids in the Bitumen scam case.
2/11/1998The Punjab police unearth a plot to kill Prime Minister I. K. Gujral, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and Congress(I) leader Sonia Gandhi by a pro-Khalistan militant group.
3/9/1863Laxman Bapuji Kolhatkar (Bhaurao), famous singer and actor of Marathi theatre, was born.
1/7/1928Vijay Tendulkar, famous playwright and novelist, was born.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
8/10/1942Manju Bala Patil was shot on the road at Mumbai by the British Police.