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Historical Event on 9/3/1984

Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM, AVSM, VM, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/21/1947First postal stamp of indepedent India of three and half annas denomination was started. Major General Cariappa took over from Lieutenant General Sir Francies Tulker as the Army Commander, Eastern Command, in the rank of Lieutenant General.
2/15/1924Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar.
10/13/1991Shatrughan Sinha, film star, decides to contest New Delhi Lok Sabha seat on a BJP ticket against Rajesh Khanna, the Congress nominee.
1/19/2000M.A. Chidambaram (81), leading industrialist and chairman of the MAC Group, died in Chennai.
9/27/1995Cellular phone service operates for the first time in Delhi.
12/28/1981New Government led by the Congress (I) leader K. Karunakaran installed in Kerala.
4/25/1998India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka.
11/19/1838Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj.
7/15/1904Mogubai Kurdikar, veteran singer of 'Jaypur Gharana', was born.
5/5/1944Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue.