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Historical Event on 10/3/1999

Insp N Gojen Singh won a 'silver' medal in 10,000 m. race and 6th position in 5,000 m. race in the 8th Asian Junior Athletic Championship ( International Level) held at Singapore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/14/1946Sanjay Gandhi, youth Congress leader, was born in New Delhi.
1/12/1955Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and veteran journalist, passed away.
8/18/1891Jain Muni Mishrimalji, poet, social reformer and orator, was born at Pali, Rajasthan.
9/2/1894Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born.
2/6/1949India to nationalize the estate of Nizam, the world's richest man, from Hyderabad.
9/28/1837Bahadur Shah-II ascended the throne and became the emperor of Delhi at the age of 62 following the death of his father Akbar Shah-II.
10/9/1947P. C. Joshi, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI), appealed to all LEFT parties to rally around Nehru to fight for peace.
8/10/1982Memorial of 201 martyrs from Maharashtra inaugurated.
7/21/1947Indian Constitution Assembly accepted the tricolour flag as its National Flag. This flag is with three equal horizontal stripes of Saffron (Sacrifice), White (Truth) and Green (Prosperity) and a Chakra is superimposed on white (Dharma Chakra on the capitol of Ashoka's Pillar at Sarnath) in blue colour having 24 spokes. The ratio of the width to length is two to three.
10/9/1949The Territorial Army of India inaugurated by the Governor General.