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Historical Event on 10/1/1941
No. 3 Squadron, similarly Audax-equipped, was raised at Peshawar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/6/1915 | Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore met for the first time at Shantiniketan. |
| 10/3/1999 | India finished with seven silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Singapore. |
| 10/31/1999 | Dr. S. S. Badrinath gets Dhanvantari Award. |
| 4/2/1953 | Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist and writer, passed away. |
| 4/2/1953 | Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2). |
| 11/3/1990 | Manmohan Krishna, famous film actor, passed away. |
| 8/27/1978 | Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland. |
| 7/25/1813 | First boat race started at Calcutta on the Hooghly river where seven sailing boats had competed. |
| 12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
| 8/20/1909 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar. |
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