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Historical Event on 7/3/1908
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was arrested as a traitor by the Britishers.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/1963 | Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died. |
| 10/9/1963 | Sher Shah defeats Humayun near Buxar at Chausa and becomes emperor of Delhi. |
| 2/26/1887 | Sir Benegal Narsingh Rao, an eminent lawyer and political leader, was born. He was the first Indian President of UN Security Council in 1950. |
| 1/29/1870 | 'Hicleche Bengal Gazette' newspaper published in India. |
| 11/16/1860 | First group of Indian worker's reached Natal, South Africa. |
| 2/15/1924 | Mahinder Singh, social worker, was born at Amritsar. |
| 5/17/1873 | Hindi daily 'Bharat Mitra' started from Calcutta. |
| 4/14/1962 | Sir Mokshagundam Vivesvaraya, father of modern engineering, passed away at the age of 102. He was receipent of ""Bharat Ratna"" Award. |
| 2/10/1944 | Japanese troops take the Ngakyedauk Pass, cutting off the 7th Indian Division at Sinzweya, Burma. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
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