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Historical Event on 3/4/1996

Union govt. decides to set up a national grid for the distribution of petroleum products.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1993CBI extensively raided VHP offices; BJP MP Brijbhushan Saren Singh among five arrested.
11/21/1963First sounding rocket launched from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS). Thus started India's space programme.
10/12/2000A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Home Minister Buta Singh to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakhs each in the 'JMM MPs' bribery case'.
12/1/1997At least 61 persons, including 22 women and 17 children, belonging to SC and extremely backward communities are gunned down by banned private army of feudal landlords, Ranbir Sena, at Bathe-Lakshmanpur village in Bihar's Jehanabad district.
7/22/1992Security scam: Planning Commission member V. Krishnamurthy resigns.
8/13/1951First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India.
2/1/1968United Nation's Conference on Trade and Development opens in New Delhi.
10/26/1886Godavarish Mishra, famous Orria poet, playwright and patriot, was born.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
7/15/1967Narayan Shripad Rajhans (Balgandharv), famous singer and actor, passed away.