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Historical Event on 3/3/1939
Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervention.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/9/1969 | Sagi Lakshmi Venkatapathy Raju, cricketer (Indian slow left-armer), was born in Hyderabad. |
| 4/1/1962 | Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government. |
| 1/7/1885 | Madhav Narayan Joshi, comedy drama writer, was born. |
| 1/24/1980 | J.S. Bawa became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 28/02/85). |
| 6/20/1946 | Gandhiji attends Working Committee meeting from 20-21 June. |
| 4/8/1997 | Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case. |
| 9/16/1977 | Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay. |
| 7/3/1992 | Avinash Ganesh Mohadikar, journalist and former editor of magzine `Vyapar Udyog', passed away. |
| 1/16/1990 | Dr. R.R. Diwakar, Gandhian and former Union Minister, passed away. |
| 3/23/1942 | Second World War was turning against the British and they needed the help of the Indians. So Prime Minister Churhill sent a delegation under Sir Stafford Cripps (Cripps Mission) to hold talks with the Indian leaders on the future of the subcontient in UK, which could not take place because of the non-cooperation movement and they left after a fortnight. They submitted their report in April 1942 which was rejected by the Congress and Muslim League. |
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