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Historical Event on 5/3/1896

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1998Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour.
8/19/1999India's role in ASEAN, ARF is lauded at a colloquium in Singapore.
9/14/1971Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died.
7/21/1911Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat.
8/13/1995Kashmiri separatists behead a kidnapped Norwegian tourist and threatened to kill other hostages unless India freed 15 militants at Srinagar.
3/6/1775Raghunath Rao signed treaty of Surat with British ending the first Anglo-Maratha War.
4/27/2000Arun Bharat Ram takes over as the president of the Confederation of Indian Industry.
5/1/1998India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.
11/3/1991India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.
3/20/1997Maharashtra (like H.P.) proposes to make carrying for aged parents mandatory.