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Historical Event on 11/3/1991

India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/18/1980Madras Doordashan Centre transmitted their first colour transmission for one hour in the afternoon, and this programme was re-transmitted simultaneously by Delhi Doordarshan, India.
5/21/1855Rani Rasmoni was consecrated at Bhabatarini Kali Temple of Dakhineswar.
6/20/1995B.R. Verma was made pro-tem Speaker by Governor by invoking Article 180 (1).
5/7/1994Ustad Jahiruddin Dagar Nasir, famous classical singer of Dhrupad-Dhamar, passed away at the age of 62 in Bareilly.
8/15/1996Deve Gowda speaks in Hindi on the occasion of the 50th Independence Day.
5/18/1926Naranjan Bhagat, famous Gujrathi poet, was born.
1/1/1981Colaba District renamed as Raigad District.
8/14/1987Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan (1890-1988), Frontier Gandhi. He is the first non-Indian to receive this honour.
4/5/1993K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election.
9/30/1916Jagan Nath Bhardwaj, social worker and trade unionist, was born at Chartgarh, H.P.