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Historical Event on 3/6/1998

A Congress(I) Ministry headed by Virbhadra Singh is sworn in at Himachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/4/1997Nilesh Kulkarni becomes the first Indian to take a wicket with his first ball in Test Cricket (Colombo).
3/30/1949Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India), passed away.
7/20/1903British to increase size of Royal Army in India.
1/18/1980Assam agitation turns violent; Army called in.
11/15/1911First meeting of the governing body of the Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) was held at the Plague Laboratory, Bombay, under the Chairmanship of Sir Harcourt Butler.
2/13/1969Subroto Tara Banerjee, cricketer (Indian quickie & Dennis Lillee protegee), was born in Patna.
4/4/1889Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer, Hindi litterateur and President of All India, was born in Babai village, Madhya Pradesh.
5/13/1648Construction of the Red Fort at Dehli was completed.
7/19/1998The INSAT-2C satellite suffers ``disorientation'' - loss of earth lock - briefly.
5/7/1994Ustad Jahiruddin Dagar Nasir, famous classical singer of Dhrupad-Dhamar, passed away at the age of 62 in Bareilly.