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Historical Event on 7/3/1661

Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/5/1933Balendu Shantilal Jain, famous hindi writer, was born at Kunchord, M.P.
9/17/1960Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
3/10/1897Savitri Bai Phule passed away. She played a prominent role in assisting her husband Mahatma Jyotirao Govindrao Phule in education field. She taught in schools for girls and for downtroddens and untouchables.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
7/16/1991Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%.
5/17/1957Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests.
5/17/1957Battle of Krisna was fought between two villages Rakshasi and Tangadi.
2/2/1977Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party.
7/18/1980Second Experimental launch of Space Launch Vehicle -3 (SLV-3) by Indian made 35 kilogram Rohini satellite (RS-1) successfully placed in orbit. It was used for measuring in-flight performance of second experimental launch of SLV-3. The launch took from Sriharikota and India became the sixth nation to put a satellite into orbit.
12/13/1999The Railways announces concessions for senior citizens, students upto Class X and the poor.