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Historical Event on 3/31/1935

374 infants wed at a mass ceremony.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
2/25/1938Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay.
3/25/1898Swami Vivekanand accepted Sister Nivedita as his disciple.
5/22/1970Vijayanand Patnaik established political party `Utkar Congress'.
3/21/1996PSLV-D3 launched successfully.
3/10/1945Madhavrao Scindia, prince of Gwalior and Congress leader, was born.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
3/16/1997The first batch of three Russian-made Sukhoi-30 combat aircraft reaches India.
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.
1/26/1981Vayudoot air service started with a flight of a F27, from Guwahati airport. This is the third Indian airline inaugurated.