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Historical Event on 3/1/1990

JD secures four-fifth majority in Orissa Assembly elections; Biju Patnaik becomes the new CM.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1956India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
4/1/1902Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer, (one Test, India v England 1934, scored 19 & 0), was born in Bombay.
9/29/1708British East India Company and New East India company merged.
1/14/1758Emperor of England's charter allowed the East India Company to keep to any booty taken in war against the enemies of the king and the company. The confisticated goods, after the war, could be kept with them.
9/17/1899First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa.
8/19/1910Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala.
1/1/1999George Fernandes, Defence Minister, said the sacked Naval Chief, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, had been displaying ""disturbing tendencies"" for over a year and even threatened his successor, Admiral Sushil Kumar, with court martial.
12/11/1881Subramania Bharati was born at Ettaiyapuram.
11/29/1916Vasant Shridhar Vaidya, great industrialist, was born at Phaltan.
9/5/199530 member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn-in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993.