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Historical Event on 9/3/1953

Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/5/1999The CBI arrests the Bihar Road Construction Minister Illiyas Hussain and conducts raids in the Bitumen scam case.
2/21/1997Sonic Multani bags National snooker title in Mumbai.
7/20/1654Portugal was taken over by Britishers.
12/26/1997Four MPs - Mr. Suresh Kalmadi from Pune, Mr. Anadi Charan Sahu from Cuttack, Mr. Mohan Delkar from Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Mr. Gopal Tandel from Daman & Diu- resign from Congress(I).
1/19/1905Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away.
10/3/1996National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory.
6/22/198219 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.
3/1/1993Narayan Ganesh Goray passed away (1-5-98).
6/1/1786Madras General Post Office started functioning.
5/18/1973A powerful underground explosion rocked India's desert of Rajasthan today, making India the sixth nation in history to set off a nuclear device. The blast, which took place at a depth of 330 feet, was in the range of 10-15 kilotons, smaller than the bomb exploded by the US at Nagasaki in World War II. India is signatory to the 1963 test ban treaty, and thus was prohibited from exploding the device on land or in the air. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi claimed the purpose of the test was peaceful and said 'such explosions may have their use in mining operations'.