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Historical Event on 3/1/1968
Salil Ashok Ankola, cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989), was born in Solapur.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/6/1847 | Saint Tyagaraja, great musician, died. |
| 11/11/1866 | Patthe Bapurao (Shridhar Krishna Kulkarni), famous poet Shahir, was born. |
| 1/31/1995 | ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997). |
| 11/24/1991 | Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections. |
| 10/13/1877 | Bhulabhai Desai, politician, was born. |
| 12/29/1996 | Trishul', surface-to-air missile successfully tested. |
| 5/9/1992 | Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns. |
| 5/3/1969 | Dr. Zakir Hussain(1897-1969), third President of India and the first Muslim President who occupied this office on 13 May, 1967, passed away. He is also remembered as an educationist. |
| 6/16/1859 | Anandram Dhekial Fukun, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | The Defence department becomes the Ministry of Defence under a Cabinet Minister. Each service was placed under its own Commander-in-Chief. Under the Constitution, the supreme command of the Armed Forces was vested with the President. |
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