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Historical Event on 1/3/1997

Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank frauds.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/19/1913Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India, was born.
5/14/1982All India Radio renamed as 'Akashwani' but it's Urdu service yet announces that it's All India Radio.
3/23/1923Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Sukkur, Sind. He was held for removing of fishplates which caused derailment of British Wagon.
5/5/1916Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab.
10/20/1962China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
5/15/1958Gift Tax Act was introduced.
10/20/1969Punjabrao Agriculture University established.
2/18/1906Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar, chief of 'Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh' (RSS), was born.
11/25/1948National Cadet Corps was first established.