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Historical Event on 10/3/1977

Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/8/1992Assets of 31 persons including Harshad Mehta attached.
1/22/1996Janata Dal parliamentary party leader Sharad Yadav resigns from Lok Sabha membership (Jain hawala case).
10/9/1976International Dialing Telephone Service started between Mumbai and London.
5/1/1966Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
1/15/1934Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.
1/15/1934Saint Narhari Sonar, a poet-saint of the Varkari smanaj and goldsmith (sonar) from Maharashtra had taken Samadhi. His transition from a staunch Shaiva to a Vithoba-worshipping Varkari, after a miracle that makes him realize that Vithoba and Shiva are one and the same.
1/25/1917Captain P.K. Sahgal, freedom fighter who attended Indian Military Academy course at Dehradun, was born at Hoshiarpur.
5/18/1995Criminal Law (Amendment Bill, 1995) introduced in Parliament to replace the 10-year-old controversial TADA Act.
3/25/1933Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born.
4/1/1956Companies Act of 1913 was revised and Indian Companies Act of 1956 came into force.