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Historical Event on 3/2/1982

Indira Gandhi opened Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/25/1900Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England.
5/26/1948First ever trade agreement with Pakistan.
9/11/1889Dr. P. Subbarayan, minister and leader of the House in O.P. and President of the Cricket Control Board, was born in Tamil Nadu.
7/1/1930Vinodkumar C. Gupta, leader in Maharashtra, was born.
7/1/1930Queen Elizabeth I granted its Royal Charter to the 218 Knights and merchants of the City of London who formed the East India Company. The venture failed to achieve its stated objectives -- it made little impression on the Dutch control of the spice trade and could not establish a lasting outpost in the East Indies.
7/31/1991Air Chief Marshal Surinder Kumar Mehra PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC., retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
8/1/1992Narasimha Rao, PM, dedicates Vizag Steel Plant to the nation.
1/18/1936Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story).
7/14/1992The Lok Sabha passes a bill seeking to confer on the President the powers of the Legislature of J&K.
5/5/1977Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party.