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Historical Event on 3/5/1948
C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/9/1996 | Sachin Tendulkar, 23, chosen India's cricket captain. |
| 9/27/1995 | 73 people died in a coal mine accident in Gaslitand in Dhanbad district, Bihar, when flood water leaked into the mine. |
| 9/8/2000 | Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries. |
| 1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Ustad Bismillah Khan. |
| 8/13/1993 | All the TDP MLAs suspended from Andhra Pradesh Assembly. |
| 1/30/1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna. |
| 3/12/1917 | Googie Withers, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing), was born in Karachi, India. |
| 2/16/1931 | Viceroy Lord Irwin meets Mahatma Gandhi for the first time. |
| 6/17/1976 | Montreal Olympics opens. |
| 3/23/2000 | Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, died at his home town in Sansarpur (near Jalandhar). |
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