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Historical Event on 7/3/1998

Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/11/1856Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born.
8/30/1645Indians and Dutch sign the peace treaty.
11/24/1932The Third Round Table Conference ended in London. As Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it. This conference ended without achieving anything.
5/4/1854The first stamp was officially issued from Calcutta where the first modern post office was established.
12/15/1976Baichung Bhutia, Indian Soccer(Football) player, was born in Gangtok, Sikkim.
12/10/1878Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, great social reformer, ardent patriot, incisive thinker and eminent literateur was born at Hosur in Tamil Nadu. He was the first Indian Governor General of independent India and popularly known as 'Rajaji'.
8/16/1922Raunaq Singh, great industrialist and philanthropist, was born at Daska.
8/16/1922Guru Ramdasji died. His son Arjun Dev succeeded him and changed the offerings to the Guru into a regular tax.
12/25/1763Suraj Mal Jat, Maharaja of Bharatpur, was killed by Najib-ud -Daulah s troops.
3/19/1998E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88.