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Historical Event on 3/1/1992

Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/16/1995Government of India decides not to extend the validity of TADA Act.
8/3/1998India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea.
11/28/1990Union Cabinet approves re-induction of Airbus A-320 in the domestic sector.
2/19/1996Biennial elections to fill 39 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states.
2/22/1977Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled.
12/28/1996India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
9/20/1999T. R. Rajakumari (78), the dream girl of the Tamil silver screen for over two decades, died.
2/12/1993Kapil Dev crosses 400 wickets and 5000 runs in test cricket.
1/18/1948Gandhi breaks 121-hour fast in New Delhi, after halting of Muslim-Hindu riots in Calcutta. He breaks the fast on security pledges from communal leaders who ""Peace Pledge"" to Gandhiji.