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Historical Event on 11/3/1984

3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/22/1999Punjab men, Railway women emerged National basketball champions in Jaipur.
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.
3/27/1997South African President Nelson Mandela arrives in New Delhi on official visit.
10/3/1957Republican Party of India established.
5/14/1999Gurucharan Singh Tohra is expelled from Shiromani Akali Dal.
12/26/1925Krishna G. Ginde, great musician and singer, was born.
6/27/1838Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Chatterjee), famous novelist, ""the father of modern Indian fiction"" and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', was borm at Katalpara near Naihati, West Bengal. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'. He was among the first two Bengalee Graduates.
1/22/1963The National Library for the Blind, the first national institute of its kind, was set up at Dehradun.
5/12/1992Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.
6/19/1997Indian Prime Minister and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, spoke for first time on restored hotline, to reiterate their committment to comprehensive dialogue, including Kashmir.