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Historical Event on 3/3/1948

B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1997Greek instrumental composer Yanni Chryssomallis's 'Freedom Concert' held at the Taj, Agra.
9/8/2000Dr. Surinder K. Vasal, Indian maize breeder, and Dr. Evagelina Villegas, Mexican cereal chemist, jointly awarded the World Food Prize-2000 for their decades-long scientific quest to produce quality protein maize for developing countries.
5/8/1930Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest.
1/1/1955Shantiswaroop Bhatnagar, famous Indian Chemical Expert, died.
3/18/1991West Bengal opts for assembly poll.
3/18/1991Pedro Alvaris, Portugese businessman, reached Calicut and established the first European factory in India.
3/25/1989India's first super-computer X-MP-14 of US make was dedicated to the nation.
1/8/1884Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society.
1/17/1601Akbar, after eight month's siege, entered Asirgarh one of the strongest forts in India.
5/8/1962Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal.