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Historical Event on 3/4/1895

Surendra Singh Majithia, great industrialist, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1959For the first time, officials of the Indian government confirmed reports of widespread resistance to the Chinese occupying forces in Tibet. Open warfare erupted in the capital city of Lhasa.
2/3/1990Birsa Munda, freedom fighter and leader, was finally arrested in Chakradharpur forest.
5/9/1995Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.
12/31/1996Gold import policy liberalised.
7/17/1974J.P. Narain leads an agitation for dissolution of the Bihar Assembly.
12/16/1990Dr. M. Channa Reddy resigned as Andhra Pradesh CM.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
1/12/1934Surya Sen (Master Da), revolutionary leader of the Indian Republican Army, who attacked the armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army, was hanged at Chittgong Jail by the Britishers.
11/8/1960Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with the Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
7/16/1917Jagdishchandra Mathur, modern Hindi playwright, was born.