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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
10/26/1952Pakistan's first Test cricket win vs India. Fazal Mahmood took 12 wkts .
11/16/1997Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender.
4/1/1918Royal Air Force replaces Royal Flying Corps in Britain.
4/29/1957The National Civil Defence College was founded at Nagpur as the Central Emergency Relief Training Institute (CERTI). It functions as the training wing of the Emergency Relief Organisation of the Government of India.
8/13/1963Sisir Kumar Mitra, Physics scientist, died at the age of 73.
3/1/1930Coimbatarao Doraikannu Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's), was born in Madras.
3/1/1930Sultan Mehmud of Ghazni began his first real expedition to India by defeating the Hindu King Jaipal. He won Afghanisthan and Punjab in Peshawar battle. This was the first major Muslim conquest in India.
1/3/1931Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born.
7/31/1916Mohanlal Sukhadia, chief minister of Rajasthan and freedom fighter, was born at Jhalawar.
7/22/1981India's first experimental geo-stationary communication satellite 'Apple' started working which was launched on June 19, 1981.