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Historical Event on 4/3/1946

Sagarmal Gopa, devoted patriot, freedom fighter and political worker, was burnt alive.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/28/1998India 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.
1/6/1948Security Council takes up India's complaint charging Pakistan with aggression in Kashmir.
12/23/1920King George V signs Home Rule Act.
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.
7/1/1856In south, the first line was opened by the Madras Railway Company. It ran between Veyasarpandy and Walajah Road (Arcot), a distance of 63 miles.
7/1/1856Mughal army defeated Rana Pratapsingh in the battle of Haldighat.
6/1/1992S.K. Datta became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/07/93).
12/7/1992Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.
5/23/19961995-96 deficit touches a new high at Rs.19,855 crore.
7/1/1879Post Card of one paisa was started in India by the Post and Telegraph Department.