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Historical Event on 5/3/1977

Hamid Dalwai, father of Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal in Maharashtra, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1909Father Kamil Bulke was born. He produced a handy English to Hindi dictionary. He did his Ph.D. on 'Ramcharita Manas' and was Head of Hindi Department in Patna University.
8/20/1991Indian Oil Executive Director K. Doraiswamy released after 52 days of being in the custody of Kashmir ultras.
12/12/1971Sadik Gulam Muhammad, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died.
12/20/1988The Constitution (62nd Amendment) Bill for reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years receives Parliamentary approval.
7/25/1995India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
2/20/1999India and Pakistan signed a formal agreement for launching the Delhi-Lahore bus service.
6/23/1985Air India Jumbo Jet Boeing 747 'Kanishka' which was travelling to Mumbai from Montreal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after explosion near Ireland. 329 people on board died.
1/27/1904R. P. Kanitkar, veteran writer, nationalist, journalist and editor, was born.
9/8/1947There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood.
3/21/1979Morarji Desai, PM, inaugurated the Backward Classes Commission in New Delhi.