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Historical Event on 8/3/1780
British officer captain Bruce conquered Gwalior fort under Major Popham after defeating Sindhiya.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1971 | The elite para-commandos and parachute battalions -India's 'Red Devils', as they are affectionately called, have an unsurpassed ethos and elan of their own. 2 Para Battalion executed a superb airborne assault operation at Tangail in East Pakistan, which was the first of its kind in the subcontinent. |
| 12/22/1995 | A Russian-made AN-26 plane forced to land in Bombay following an Intelligence Bureau tip off that it could be the suspected aircraft which dropped arms at Purulia. |
| 1/18/1906 | Nirupam Chandra Ganguli, criminal lawyer and sportsman, was born at Bhagalpur. |
| 1/18/1906 | Babur came to India , and conquered it through Sindh in his fifth attempt. |
| 6/24/1974 | India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins. |
| 3/12/1917 | Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India. |
| 4/8/1997 | Delhi High Court quashes charges of corruption and criminal conspiracy against L.K. Advani (BJP President), and former Union Minister V.C. Shukla in the Jain hawala case. |
| 6/28/1986 | Union Government sanctions maternity leave for unmarried women employees too. |
| 12/16/1952 | Sri Ramalu Potiu sacrificed his life for the demand of seperate Andhra Pradesh state for the Telugu- speaking people. |
| 9/30/1997 | 24th Stock Exchange of India set up at Trivandrum. |
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