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Historical Event on 8/3/1998
35 persons were killed as Govind Towers at Bandra in Mumbai collapsed.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/30/1996 | CBI chargesheets Rao and six others including Buta Singh and Capt. Satish Sharma in the Rs. 3.5 cr. JMM MPs pay-off case. |
| 12/7/1902 | Janardhan Gyanoba Navle, cricketer, India's first Test wicket-keeper, was born at Fulgaon, Maharashtra. He played against England at Lord's in 1932. |
| 10/12/1967 | National Conference, the Working Committee of Jammu and Kashmir, unanimously passed the proposal to a permanent merger of the state with India. |
| 2/12/1995 | The 3-phase-budget session begins with the address of President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma in the joint sitting of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. |
| 9/17/1956 | Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established. |
| 4/11/1937 | Ramnath Krishnan, well known Indian Tennis player, was born. |
| 1/6/1842 | 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul.. |
| 4/11/2000 | Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories 'Interpreter of Maladies'. |
| 6/20/1756 | A group of British soldiers along with Halvel were imprisoned by some rebellions in a suffocating cell that gained notoriety as the ""Black Hole of Calcutta."" Most of them died here. |
| 10/12/1993 | National Environment Council with PM as chairperson set up. |
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