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Historical Event on 3/3/1989

Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/22/1970Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
7/1/1999K. N. Singh (70), former Union Minister and senior Congress leader, died in Lucknow.
3/27/1999World No. 2 Viswanathan Anand won the title with a round to spare in the rapid section of the Amber rapid and blindfold chess tournaments in Monte Carlo.
6/18/1918A. R. Rajrajvarma, famous poet of Malayalam language, critic and master of grammer, passed away.
7/8/199125 tonnes of gold moved to London from India to raise $ 200 million loan.
11/11/2000Harin Pathak, Union Minister of State for Defence, resigns after being chargesheeted by a sessions court in Ahmedabad in a case relating to the murder of a head constable at the height of the anti-reservation agitation in 1985.
4/9/1965After Indo-Pak conflict of 1965, the Raksha Medal, Samar Seva Star and some others were introduced.
9/30/1999India successfully test-fired its multi-target surface-to-air missile 'Akash'.
1/23/1909New direct 7,000-mile telegraphic link with India is hailed as a great achievement at London.
5/10/1993Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time.