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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
10/6/1858Nanasaheb Peshwa, a revolutionary of first mutiny, died.
6/23/2000Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath gets Amnesty International Global award for human rights journalism..
9/21/1857Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops.
6/13/1943Netaji Subhashchandra Bose started his journey from Germany to Tokyo by a submarine.
7/16/199917 are killed and over 200 injured when the Delhi bound GT Express collides with derailed wagons of a goods train near Mathura.
12/29/1977World's biggest Drive-In theatre started screening in Bombay.
6/23/1953Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician, national leader and founder of JanSangh Party, died at Srinagar while in detention.
10/6/1954Nehru declared the National Health Scheme for the entire country.
6/22/198219 persons were killed and 25 injured when an Air India Boeing 707 from Singapore via Madras crashed at Bombay.
3/28/1914Komagata Maru sailed from Hong Kong to Vancouver with 351 Sikhs and 21 Punjabi Muslim youths under the captaincy of Sardar Gurjeet Singh as a part of 'Ghadar' Movement.