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Historical Event on 3/6/1961
India's first Financial daily 'The Economic Times' started publication from Bombay.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/5/1995 | India and China agree to open two new border points including Nathu La (Sikkim) to facilitate meetings between their military personnel. |
| 8/9/1970 | Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi. |
| 2/3/1954 | More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad. |
| 12/16/1952 | Sri Ramalu Potiu sacrificed his life for the demand of seperate Andhra Pradesh state for the Telugu- speaking people. |
| 5/15/1995 | PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit. |
| 5/8/1901 | British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 2/25/1938 | Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay. |
| 5/1/1995 | SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent. |
| 7/20/1954 | Armistice for Indo-China signed. |
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