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Historical Event on 12/3/1971
Third Pakistani aggression begins with air attacks on airports in the western sector; emergency declared.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/3/1997 | Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank frauds. |
| 11/22/1872 | Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England. |
| 11/3/1929 | Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born. |
| 10/13/1877 | Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born. |
| 4/18/1918 | Amboo alias Lalita Pawar was born in Indore. She will be always remembered as the a leading film actress and character artist. Her first film was 'Ganimi Kawa' (1928). Some of the other films of silent era are Shri Balaji, Bhimsen, Champion of the Sward, Chatur Sunderi, Goodbye Marriage, Flaming Soul, Kailash. |
| 2/17/1670 | Shivaji won SinghGarh Fort from Mughals. This victory was on the shoulders of Tanaji who was martyred in this attack. Shivaji proclaimed ""Garh Aalaa Pan Singh Gela"" which means that Fort was won but the Lion was lost. |
| 10/23/1999 | A Boeing 707 carrying Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and his entourage lands safely at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai following a suspected tyre burst. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
| 2/14/1925 | Mohan Dhariya, politician and nature lover, was born. |
| 12/28/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past. |
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