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Historical Event on 3/1/1950
The population figure for India is announced as 347,340,000.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/27/1997 | Surendra Pratap Singh, famous Journalist and former chief editor of Nav Bharat Times Group, died ]at Delhi. |
| 12/27/1990 | Central Govt. introduces fresh direct tax proposals to raise additional Rs. 810 crore by raising income tax and fixing limits for deduction of depreciation. |
| 6/7/1974 | Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis star, was born. He is the winner of French Open 1997 (mixed doubles) and 1999 (doubles) and Wimbledon 1999. |
| 8/1/1997 | Lt. Gen. Ved Prakash Malik to be next chief of Army staff. Gen. Shankar Roy Chowdhury retires on September 30. |
| 12/23/1926 | Swami Shradhanand, great revolutionary freedom fighter, social worker and politician, was assassinated by a revolver shot that was fired by a young Muslim Abdul Rashid. |
| 9/19/1726 | Khandoballal died. |
| 8/15/1947 | Sir Cyril Radcliffe Award on the new boundaries of West Punjab, East Punjab, West Bengal, East Bengal and Assam. |
| 10/9/1942 | Bibi Amar Kaur, freedom fighter, successfully hoisted the national flag at Jail Gate of Lahore. She was then arrested and send to Ambala Jail. |
| 8/29/1976 | Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam of Bengal, great revolutionary, died on his visit to Dhaka in Bangladesh. |
| 8/4/1993 | Swami Chinmayananda, master in study of Bhagwadgita, died at the age of 76 in San Diego. |
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