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Historical Event on 3/1/1992

Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/14/1971Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.
5/25/1995Parliament gives assent to Budget and passes Finance Appropriation Bill.
9/19/2000Karnam Malleswari becomes the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal (bronze) at the Sydney Olympics.
11/30/1920N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born.
2/3/1977Government relaxes rules of Emergency to permit normal political activity and electioneering.
11/5/1927Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, met Gandhiji, S.Shriniwas Iyengar and M.A. Ansari Congress leaders at New Delhi.
8/22/1979Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, President of India, dissolves the sixth Lok Sabha, orders year-end general elections and asks Charan Singh to head a caretaker government.
3/2/1996Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs Sri Lanka in Cricket World Cup, but India still lose the match.
6/3/1912Sohrab Pirojsha Godrej, great industrialist, was born.
5/19/1904Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.