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Historical Event on 3/3/1707

Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.

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1/15/1947Pritish Nandi, famous journalist, was born. Abul Kalam Azad became Minister of Education in the Government of India.
8/8/1955Dr. Homi J. Bhabha elected chairman of the international conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.
5/2/1998The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas.
2/28/1997The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11.
12/15/1997Magsaysay award winning litterateur Mahasweta Devi, Sitar maestro Annapurna Devi and Rabindra Sangeet exponent Suchitra Mitra honoured with 'Desikottam' by Visva Bharati University.
10/20/1990Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
12/29/1965First Indian-made tank 'Vijayanta' rolled off the Avadi Heavy Vehicles factory.
7/31/1985Lalit Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists.
4/14/1988Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award.
9/6/1903Russia increases import duties on Indian and Ceylon tea in retaliation for British import policies in Moscow.