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Historical Event on 6/3/1977

K. Brahmananda Reddi elected President of the Indian National Congress.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/12/1987Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat.
9/20/1932Gandhiji commences ""fast unto death"" (hunger strike) in Poona prison to secure abolition of separate electorates for Harijans and untouchables.
12/20/1876Bankinchrandra Chattopadhyay wrote ""Vande Mataram"".
10/27/1907Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died.
1/18/1999Gul Panag (20) from Delhi was crowned Femina Miss India Universe at the Miss India 1999 beauty pageant in Pune.
2/27/1854Lord Dalhousie captured Jhansi under the East India Company.
2/25/1977Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun.
11/1/1973Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka.
6/24/1986Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave.
8/22/1877Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, great painter, philosopher, linguist, critic, art researcher in the East, was born at Colombo in Sri Lanka.