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Historical Event on 3/31/1997
The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/10/1953 | Opening ceremony of Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research held. |
| 5/5/1903 | Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 7/22/1997 | Bus plummets into the swollen Usri river in Giridih dist, Bihar, killing 70. |
| 7/22/1997 | Savtamali, famous saint, attains 'samadhee'. |
| 12/9/1873 | Lord Northbrook, Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation stone of the building. |
| 5/22/1996 | Ravi Shastri appointed UNICEF's national ambassador for children. |
| 8/5/1986 | Vellupillai Prabakaran, Tamil rebel leader, died. The vision of secession for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority may have come to an end. But so, too, might the violence that the nation had endured. Today, Tamil rebel leader Vellupillai Prabakaran accepted the peace accord signed last week by India and Sri Lanka. Prabakaran surrendered to Indian forces and his men turned over their weapons. The pact is seen as a compromise by the co-signers. But to the dejected Tamil leader, who has fought since childhood for a Tamil victory, it was a stinging defeat. The treaty creates an autonomous multi-religious zone in the eastern and northern provinces. The rebels dreamed and passed away for a separate state of their own. |
| 1/26/1965 | Hindi Language is accepted as National language of India. |
| 11/29/1961 | First cosmonaut of the world, Yuri Gagarin of Russia, came to India. |
| 6/6/1924 | S. R. Bommai, former President of Janata Dal, was born. |
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