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Historical Event on 3/5/1992

Sunder, comedy actor, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/15/1949General K. N. Kariappa became the first Indian Commander-in-Chief. He was the first Indian to reach to this post in Indian Army. In 1956, he was designated as Chief of the Army Staff - General, later Field Marshal. This event is commemoratively observed as Army Day.
6/14/1905Smt. Hirabai Barodekar, famous veteran Maharashtrian classical singer, was born.
3/9/1836Navalram Lakshmiram Pandya, famous writer and Gujrati critic , was born.
2/2/1917Maharshi Vinayak Ramchandra Patwardhan (Annasaheb), collegue of Lokmanya Tilak, passed away.
3/15/1997Lok Sabha passes Income Tax (Amendment) Bill, 1997.
7/1/1992Major changes in Exim policy-farming and repacking included under the definition of 'manufacturer'.
9/14/1997Catholic churches in Kerala introduce the system of serving the holy Eucharist in the palm of the faithful instead of on the tongue.
12/17/1933Lala Amarnath scores a century (118) in his Test Cricket debut.
11/29/1988Rajiv 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.
11/10/1901Formal inauguration of the new North-West Frontier Province created out of the Punjab.