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Historical Event on 3/5/1948

C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/8/1923Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.
8/17/1944Indian Viceroy Viscount Wavell rejects Gandhi's request to discuss war support in return for Indian independence.
6/21/1994The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of its 39 Lok Sabha members seek separate seats as a group.
3/16/1977Sixth General Election of India begins.
1/27/1999P. Krishnamurthy, former Indian wicketkeeper, died in Hyderabad following a cardiac arrest.
2/3/1928Chandrasekhar Vaman Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55), was born at Pune.
8/2/1987Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.
2/11/2001Objective type paper scheduled in 28 cities in India.
6/4/1902Richard Allen, India, field hockey goal tender (Olympic-gold-1928), was born.
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.