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Historical Event on 3/1/1996

Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/5/1989Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died.
4/22/1958Admiral R. T. Katari was appointed as the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff.
11/29/1989Rajiv Gandhi resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India.
7/6/1995Five foreign tourists trekking in Kashmir 10 km uphill from Pahalgam were abducted by militants.
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
4/1/1993National Aeronautical Laboratory becomes National Aerospace Laboratories.
11/15/1995Qiao Shi, Chairman of the standing committee of the Chinese National Peoples' Congress, arrives in New Delhi to advance Sino-Indian relations.
10/16/1905Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement.
8/10/1993Election Commission withdrew controversial order. By-polls to be held before 10.
2/18/1665The Portuguese handover Mumbai island to England.