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Historical Event on 3/2/1996

Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/26/1992Bharat Bhushan, the legendary romantic film hero of the 1950's, passed away at the age of 71 years.
5/19/1911K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind.
5/17/1999Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it.
1/19/1919Dharam Singh, field hockey player for Indian Team at Olympics-1964-Gold Winner, was born.
5/27/2000In a mini cabinet reshuffle, Nitish Kumar gets back his Agriculture portfolio, while Dilip Ray resigns as Minister of State for Steel.
7/10/1994Ramrao Raghoba Rane, Paramveer Chakra awardee, died.
4/3/1999Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2E), fifth satellite in INSAT-2 series, launched. This has multipurpose communication & meteorological capabilities. This is still in use. Launched by European launch vehicle Ariane, ISRO has leased eleven 36 MHz equivalent units of C-band capacity on board to INTELSAT organisation.
8/26/1852Bombay Association was established.
5/8/1959Dalai Lama will not be allowed to campaign for Tibetan independence in India. India wants to maintain friendly relations with Communist China.
6/28/1883Shivprasad Gupta, social reformer, politician, leader, philanthropist, freedom fighter and educationist, was born at Varanasi.