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Historical Event on 3/1/1990
JD secures four-fifth majority in Orissa Assembly elections; Biju Patnaik becomes the new CM.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/2000 | India, Russia sign their biggest yet defence deal for licensed production of the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jets worth $3 billion. |
| 1/18/1959 | Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good. |
| 11/14/1969 | Jawaharlal Nehru University inaugurated in New Delhi. |
| 5/23/1805 | Lord Wellesley, Governer General of India, issued a permanent provision for the Delhi Mughal Emperor. |
| 6/2/1993 | Kurla-Kochi Express rams into goods train near Jolarpet in which 22 were killed and 100 injured. |
| 8/30/1979 | Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma, a World War II hero, last British Viceroy in India and the first Governor General of independent India, was killed when Irish terrorists exploded his family fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army immediately took credit for the killing, which it described as 'an execution' designed to further 'the noble struggle to drive the British intruders out of our native land'. |
| 4/24/1965 | Kosi Barrage inaugurated by King Mahendra of Nepal. |
| 5/4/1980 | Coal Mine Worker's Day established. |
| 12/17/1938 | Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died. |
| 12/19/1994 | Critical stores of IAF were de-inducted by AN-124 contracted by UN. Bulky stores were brought by ship Mogadishu. |
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