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Historical Event on 3/31/1871

Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, freedom fighter and loyal Congress leader 'Lion of Karnataka', was born.

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3/31/1993Major changes in exim policy announced.
1/29/1979Tamil Nadu Expess, India's first Jumbo passenger train, was flagged off from New Delhi Railway Station for Madras.
3/3/1859A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
11/12/1946Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya died at the age of 85.
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
8/19/1976Nagarjun Sagar University established in Andhra Pradesh.
1/18/1948Gandhi breaks 121-hour fast in New Delhi, after halting of Muslim-Hindu riots in Calcutta. He breaks the fast on security pledges from communal leaders who ""Peace Pledge"" to Gandhiji.
5/29/1953Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay.
6/4/1958The three-men Indian Mountaineering group successfully climbed the high Peak in the Garhwal Hills Range.
1/15/1999Mi. Pa. Somasundaram (79), writer, poet, litterateur and associate of Rajaji, died in Chennai.