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Historical Event on 3/2/1997

Bangalore's Dr. B. V. Ravi Kumar develops India's first indigenously made HIV detection kit.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1963Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling.
1/12/1934Surya Sen (Master Da), revolutionary leader of the Indian Republican Army, who attacked the armoury of Chittagong with 62 men of the Indian Republican Army, was hanged at Chittgong Jail by the Britishers.
3/26/1942Indira Gandhi, third Prime Minister of India, was married to Feroze Gandhi.
11/11/1675Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day.
6/30/2000The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council adopts a resolution seeking separation from J&K.
4/19/1997I.K. Gujral, External Affairs Minister, chosen leader of United Front in place of Deve Gowda.
7/7/197378 drowned as flash flood sweeped a bus into a river (India).
1/19/1995Goa Cong (I) government led by Pratap Singh Rane gets absolute majority when 4-members of MGP merged with Congress.
5/21/1984Army moves in after 114 die in religious strife at Bomay.
10/26/1999India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).