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Historical Event on 3/31/1997

The Bombay Stock Exchange crashes by 300 points.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1936Golden Jublee Session of Indian National Congress, under the presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, held at Faizpur urging India to strike at British imperialism.
6/1/1842Satyendranath Tagore, Bengali officer and litterateur, was born.
1/7/1685Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company, was born.
5/30/196269 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.
3/28/1998The BJP-led alliance survived its first test of trust with the support of Chandrababu Naidu's Telgu Desam Party. Jayalalitha continues to call the shots.
5/19/1908Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story-writer, was born.
6/9/2000The CBI-designated court frames charges against Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi and RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in the disproportionate assets case.
12/9/1992More than 700 die in clashes in Ayodhya; BJP bandh partial.
9/14/1965Pakistan Air Force bombs Calcutta and Agartala civilian airports.
9/15/1953S. Vijayalakshmi Pandit was elected as the first lady President of the eighth session of the United Nations Organisation's (UNO) General Assembly.