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Events for March 3

3-March-78	Shaliwahan Shaka Hindu Calender started.
3-March-1575	A battle was fought at Turkra or Turkra Qasba (in the Balasore district) in which the Afghans were routed.
3-March-1700	Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj died of small pox at Raigarh or Sinhagarh fort. (2 or 3).
3-March-1707	Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First.
3-March-1839	Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, was born at Navsari near Surat, Gujarat. He started cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
3-March-1847	Alexander Graham Bell, great pioneer, inventor and professor, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland.
3-March-1859	A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur.
3-March-1871	Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent.
3-March-1885	Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).
3-March-1891	Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created.
3-March-1906	Krishnarao Shiva Shelvankar, journalist and diplomat, was born.
3-March-1906	Trailokyanath Goswami, famous Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Nalbari, Assam .
3-March-1919	Hari Narayan Apte, famous Marathi novelist, passed away.
3-March-1921	Ahmed Gulsher, freedom fighter and politician, was born at Satna (M.P).
3-March-1924	Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
3-March-1930	Untouchable people fought to enter the temple of 'Kala Rama' at Nasik.
3-March-1931	Gandhi and Viceroy Irwin sign Delhi Pact giving Indians right to make salt if civil disobedience stops.
3-March-1934	Amarsingh Pandurang Rane, educationist, was born at Banage, Kolhapur.
3-March-1939	Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" at Rajkot to protest state's autocratic rule at Bombay and to secure ruler's adherence of promise given towards reform administration, and ends it on March 7 on Viceroy's intervent
3-March-1939	Motganhalli Laxmanarsu Jaisi alais Jaisimha, cricketer (Indian batsman of the sixties), was born in Secundrabad.
3-March-1943	Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days.
3-March-1948	B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away.
3-March-1952	The Indian National Congress secured absolute majority in the Lok Sabha in the General elections.
3-March-1967	India signed the International Space Treaty in Moscow.
3-March-1978	Origin of Saka Era (India).
3-March-1982	Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, d
3-March-1983	Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
3-March-1989	Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant.
3-March-1990	JD-BJP coalition government in Gujarat, Chimanbhai Patel to become CM; Sharad Pawar in Maharashtra and Bhairon Singh Shekhewat of BJP to head the BJP-JD coalition government in Rajasthan.
3-March-1993	Sharad Pawar nominated CM of Maharashtra.
3-March-1996	Haryana govt. bans liquor vends and bars in rural areas.
3-March-1997	Indian Socialist Party headed by Arangil Sridharan merges with Lok Sakthi. It was floated by Ramakrishna Hedge.
3-March-1997	Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, arrives in New Delhi.
3-March-1997	Senior Officials Meeting of Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries begins in Mauritius.
3-March-1999	Four members of the forward Bhumihar community and alleged members of the Ranbir Sena are gunned down by an armed squad of the People's War Group in Bhimpura village of Jehanbad district in Bihar.
3-March-2000	Nitish Kumar, Samata Party leader, sworn in Bihar Chief Minister. Governor V.C. Pande's decision evokes widespread criticism.