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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 |
| 8/1/1963 | Soviets offer India arms to block China. |
| 1/9/1841 | John Gil Christ, founder of Fort William College Calcutta, passed away at Paris. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
| 7/4/1994 | Labhuben Mehta, famous Gujrathi author, died. |
| 5/25/1941 | 5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India. |
| 2/25/1987 | The Railway Minister announces introduction of 8 superfast trains from April 1. |
| 2/28/1930 | Sir Chandrasekhar V. Raman, Scientist, 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering ""Raman Effect"". He is also the first Indian to receive this honor in Physics, The Indian Nobel Laureates. |
| 12/9/1999 | BJP expels former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh. |
| 11/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, stage and film artist, member of Rajya Sabha and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, was born. |
| 7/5/1984 | Indian Airlines airbus hijacked, lands in Lahore. |
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