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Historical Event on 3/8/2000

The Gujarat Government withdraws its January 3 notification, thus reimposing the ban on its employees from participating in RSS activities.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/29/1977World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay.
9/19/1950U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York.
10/21/1999B. R. Chopra, filmmaker, gets the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
2/15/1869Mirza ""Galib"" Asad Ullah Beg Khan, famous Urdu poet and writer, passed away.
3/8/1864Hari Narayan Apte, a well known Marathi writer who popularised social and historical themes in his novels, was born. He presided over the 8th Marathi Sahitya Sammelen in 1912.
5/13/1971General Insurance nationalized.
12/11/1958Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.
4/28/1945Ajit Manohar Pai, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1969), was born in Bombay.
1/17/1917Dr. Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran, (M.G.R.), Indian film star, politician and charismatic Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, was born at Kandy, Sri Lanka. He was also the founder of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhaga (AIADMK).
5/20/1900Sumitranandan Pant was born.