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Historical Event on 3/31/1843
Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first musical playwright of Marathi, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/5/1991 | Leila Seth was sworn the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. She is a judge of Delhi High Court. |
| 9/15/1940 | Anil Yashwant Tipnis, Air Chief Marshal, was born. |
| 8/26/1984 | An Indian Airlines Boeing with 68 passengers and a crew of six hijacked to Lahore. The 12 Sikh hijackers then surrendered to the authorities in the U.A.E and released all the passengers. |
| 8/26/1984 | Vasco De Gama departed with his fleet from Lisbon Harbour for a trip to India . |
| 1/16/1966 | Sadhu Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani, noted thinker and saint poet, great orator, professor and prolific writer, died at Pune. |
| 7/20/1916 | Habibur Rehman Ebrahim Chowdhary, cricket Test Umpire for 4 tests from 1959-64, was born at Mumbai. |
| 11/14/1995 | Supreme Court gave patients the right to drag careless doctors to Court. |
| 8/6/1920 | Film Censor Board at Bombay started working. The first film censored and granted a Censor Certificate No. 1 was a short film of 600 ft., produced by Gaumont Company and it was titled as 'Gaumont Graphic No. 963-964'. The Regional Film Censor Boards were also set-up in Calcutta, Madras and Rangoon. |
| 3/7/1996 | Union Cabinet clears decks for extending benefits of reservation to Dalit Christians. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
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