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Historical Event on 3/31/1913
Foundation stone of 'Gateway of India' was laid by Sir George Sydneham Clerk.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1942 | Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet. |
| 12/30/1929 | The first inland Indian air mail left New Delhi this morning for Jodhpur, Hyderabad, and Karachi to connect at Karachi with the air service to London. |
| 6/2/1986 | One thousand Sikhs arrested at demonstrations in Punjab. |
| 12/25/1964 | Anil Kaul, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96), was born in Amritsar, India. |
| 1/22/1877 | Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam. |
| 12/16/1992 | The Parliament adopts resolution condemning the demolition of the mosque at Ayodhya and centre appoints a one-man judicial commission to enquire into the Ayodhya incidents. |
| 9/19/1960 | Sindhu River water-sharing settement was signed between India and Pakistan. |
| 5/10/1910 | Robert Koch, nobel laureate, died of an heart attack. |
| 12/10/1998 | Dr. 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. |
| 7/17/2000 | 55 persons die as a Boeing 737 of Alliance Air from Calcutta to Delhi via Patna and Lucknow crashes at Gardanibagh, one km from the runway at the Patna airport. |
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