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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
3/20/1920Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts.
11/13/1999A woman commits 'sati' in Satpura village in Mohaba district of Uttar Pradesh
8/12/1919Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, the father of Indian space technology and scientist, was born at Ahmedabad.
9/2/1976Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.
5/20/1776Malharrao Holkar, founder of Indoor, passed away.
9/30/1972Pakistani troops shell into the Indian zone of Kashmir.
2/13/1993School collapses killing 21 pupils and 4 teachers.
5/20/1994Indian ship rescues over 2000 Indian nationals trapped in the embattled Yemen's port city of Aden.
4/7/1997NAM foreign ministers two-day conference begins in New Delhi.
2/23/1946Some 300,000 Indians joined in anti-British demonstrations today in the wake of yesterday's violent riots in the city of Bombay. Indian Navy rebels. A day of terror and rebellion saw Indian Navy members turn against their British officers firing machine guns.