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Historical Event on 3/3/1924
Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/5/1872 | Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar. |
| 2/11/1980 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, passed away. |
| 6/4/1987 | A Swedish Government enquiry finds that Bofors paid commission to middlemen for concluding Arms Purchase Agreement with India. |
| 3/26/1931 | New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies. |
| 1/22/1877 | Tarun Ram Phookun, ''Deshabhakta'', great lawyer, orator, eminent writer and President of the Assam Chhatra Sammelan in 1928, was born in Gauhati, district Kamrup, Assam. |
| 1/30/1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna. |
| 7/23/1993 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
| 5/17/1999 | Sonia Gandhi resigns as Congress president but the CWC(I) rejects it. |
| 7/18/1908 | Fourteen thousand mill workers go on strike at Bombay. |
| 2/5/1630 | Har Rai, Sikh Guru, was born. |
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