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Historical Event on 11/3/1988

Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/17/1991The first Indian Remote Sensing Satellite IRS-IA completes three years of successful operation. (18-3-91).
7/5/1992Bahadur Prasad at London sets record for 3000m in 7.56.74.
9/23/1908Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi poet, was born.
6/9/199881 persons are killed as cyclone hits the Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat and Jalore district of Rajasthan. Subsequently, the toll is put at 934 in the Kutch-Saurashtra region alone.
7/21/1962Passenger Train and Freight Train collided near Dumraon killing 69 persons.
11/15/1817Battle of Yerwada.
9/25/1919Rayat Educational Institute (Rayat Shikshan Sanstha) was established.
3/1/1961The first AN-12B arrived in India. This was added in the force because of the increasing frequency of clashes with Chinese forces on the Sino-lndian Himalayan border and the need that these revealed for yet further increase in airlift capability, together with a requirement for medium helicopters suitable for high-altitude operation, orders were placed in the Soviet Union for eight Antonov An- 12B and 24IL-yushin 11- 14 transport aircraft plus 10 Mi-4 helicopters.
1/19/1855G. Subramaniam Iyer, active worker of Indian National Congress since its establishment, was born.
5/9/1919Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.