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Historical Event on 7/3/1997

Tamil actor Sivaji Ganesan gets 1996 Dada Saheb Phalke award for outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/23/1990Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation.
7/11/1994Delhi IG (prisons) Kiran Bedi wins Magsaysay Award for public service.
10/28/1998The 1998 Swarna Jayanti Fellowship Award is presented to 11 young scientists.
10/5/1993CBI chargesheeted 40 in Ayodhya case. Advani, Joshi and Bal Thackeray were among the accused.
7/5/1957Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh, great leader, freedom fighter, educationist and Minister of India, died..
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
7/19/1974Udham Singh's, revolutionary, ashes brought to Delhi from London.
8/19/1757The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company.
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
4/26/1992Gyanapith award winner Prof. V.K.Gokak (82) passes away.