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Historical Event on 9/3/1997

India and E.U. sign an agreement envisaging a $200 m. E.U. aid for the country's primary health care programme.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/9/1877Utkalmani Pandit Gopabandhu Das, great freedom fighter, social reformer, educationist, poet, author, lawyer of modern Orrisa, was born in Puri District, Orissa.
4/21/1998The services of 12 non-railway chairmen of Railway Recruitment Boards are terminated.
12/15/1908Swami Ranga Natahananda, was born at Trikkur, Kerala.
1/21/1961Queen of Britain, Elizabeth II, and her husband Duke of Edinburgh visited New Delhi.
3/16/1924Bhupendranath Basu, great freedom fighter, President of Congress and fluent orator, passed away.
12/10/1998Dr. Gurudev S. Khush, rice breeder at the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines, and Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, wheat breeder at the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre, Mexico, share the Rank Prize announced in London.
5/3/1977Hamid Dalwai, father of Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal in Maharashtra, passed away.
11/9/1977Keshavrao Bhole, great music director, passed away.
3/21/1977Internal Emergency, promulgated on June 25, 1975, withdrawn by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
9/1/1965Pakistan launched Operation 'Grand Slam' in Chhamb sector aimed at Akhnoor in Jammu. Indians had battled Pakistanis in air and on ground at Kashmir.