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Historical Event on 3/31/1871

Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, freedom fighter and loyal Congress leader 'Lion of Karnataka', was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1987Ramaswamy Venkataraman became the eighth President of India. He held this office till July 25, 1992.
5/1/1879Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission.
11/7/1991Salauddin and his wife Neena create a world record by travelling in a Nissan car.
1/10/1996All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films.
3/17/1999An international seminar on UN Peacekeeping was co-jointly hosted by Ministry of External affairs and Ministry of Defence at New Delhi from 17 to 19 March 1999. The seminar was conducted by HQ Army Training Command, Shimla on behalf of the Indian Army. A total of 126 foreign delegates from 71 countries participated in the seminar.
9/14/1803Lord Lake was captured Delhi.
10/11/1941Amitabh Bachchan, famous film actor, was born.
3/22/1885Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born.
10/2/1972Broadcasting of Mumabi Doordarshan started.
6/1/1997New postal rates effective; post card-25 p, inland letter-Re.1, envelope-Rs.2 and Registration-Rs.10.