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Historical Event on 5/3/1896

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/16/1930Rioting continues in India as British police fire on mob of 10,000.
11/16/1958India and U.S.S.R. sign trade agreement to exchange Soviet industrial and agricultural equipment for farm commodities at Moscow.
4/1/1956Companies Act of 1913 was revised and Indian Companies Act of 1956 came into force.
1/20/1897Gandhiji declines to prosecute assailants.
6/27/1915Khanderao Moreshwar Rangnekar, 3 test matches, 33 runs, vs Australia in 1947-48, was born at Mumbai.
11/16/1995The Pension scheme ordinance for 18 million Provident Fund subscribers takes effect with an initial corpus of Rs. 85.00 billion.
3/18/1916Pratapsinh Mathuradas Vissanji, great industrialist, was born at Bombay.
1/11/1955Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India.
3/1/1985Rajendra Sethia, the biggest personal bankrupt ever, arrested in New Delhi.
3/17/1997A Delhi court sentences former Union Minister Kalpnath Rai to 10 years RI.