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Historical Event on 5/3/1718
Baba Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, great freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Ahlu village, Lahore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1971 | A 20-year non-aggression treaty for peace, friendship and co-operation was signed between India and U.S.S.R. |
| 2/25/1995 | Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed. |
| 5/18/1912 | Narayan Govind Chitre, with the help of R. P. Tipnis and Cameraman Johnson, produced a 8000 ft. long theatrical film 'Pundalik', which was directed by Ramchandra Torney alias Dada Saheb Torne. The entire film was shot in a theatre at Mangaldas Wadi in Bombay, where the Sangit Mandali, a professional theatre group, was performing a play 'Pundalik'. The film was released on May, 18 in the Coronation Cinematograph at Girgaum, Bombay. |
| 5/13/2000 | The Union Government gives its approval for the creation of the three new states of Jharkhand, Uttaranchal and Chhattisgarh to be carved out of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. |
| 4/20/1960 | Pannalal Ghosh, famous flute player, passed away. |
| 3/30/1929 | Weekly postal service across 5,000-miles by aeroplane started between England and India serving India, Egypt, Palestine and Iraq in London. |
| 5/9/1866 | Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter and political leader, was born in Kotluk village of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. |
| 4/1/1869 | Income Tax was imposed. On the same day New Indian Divorce Act came into operation. |
| 3/8/1864 | Hari Narayan Apte, a well known Marathi writer who popularised social and historical themes in his novels, was born. He presided over the 8th Marathi Sahitya Sammelen in 1912. |
| 7/7/1998 | Nag, indigenously developed anti-tank missile, is test-fired again. |
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