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Historical Event on 3/5/1993
The government de-reserves the mining industry throwing it open to private sector as well as to foreign investment.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/17/1994 | Kapil Dev's last one-day international vs West Indies. |
| 11/15/1993 | Supreme Court rules that the CEC is supreme |
| 3/3/1906 | Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, was born. |
| 1/24/1951 | Nehru assails US. demand for UN to name Peking as aggressor in Korea, New Delhi. |
| 9/23/1862 | Sriniwas Shastri, great patriot and veteran politician, was born. |
| 10/22/1873 | Swami Rama Tirtha, great social reformer and poet, was born at Murariwala village of Gujranwala district. He lectured throughout Japan and America spreading "practical Vedant |
| 4/15/1919 | British troops kill 400 Indians, who were demonstrating against the British rule at Amritsar for the forced marshall law on Punjab. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 3/28/1994 | G-15 summit opens with only six heads of Government in New Delhi. |
| 4/1/1973 | India starts a drive to save tigers from extinction. |
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