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Historical Event on 3/3/1943

Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/21/1820Dalpat Rai, modern Gujrati poet, was born.
3/5/1999The indigenously-built multi-barrel rocket launcher ''Pinaka'' is successfully test-fired at Chandipur-on-sea in Orissa.
8/1/1997Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30.
11/5/1951Western Railways and Central Railways were formed in Bombay; seperate Time Tables were setup.
4/10/1999Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai (87), patriarch of Malayalam fiction, died at his ancestral village at Sankaramangalam in Thakazhi village.
9/13/1997Grieving India lays to rest Mother Teresa in state funeral in Calcutta in which pomp and splendour is combined with religious rites.
7/1/1852For the first time in Asia, Postal Stamp for the general public was issued by Sindh Province in Karachi.
2/10/1691Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
10/24/1789Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born