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Historical Event on 11/3/1961

Gold Bond scheme was started to boost Indian economy after Indo-China war.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/26/1985P.T. Usha sets record for 100m (Women) in 11.39 seconds at Jakarta.
10/31/1876Cyclone hits Bengal centered near Bakarganj (now in Banlgadesh), about 200,000 die.
3/8/1986L.K. Advani elected President of BJP.
7/30/1883Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born.
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
11/7/2000The BJP firebrand Uma Bharti makes a triumphant return to the Union Ministry as Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs and Arun Jaitley gets elevated as Cabinet Minister in a mini expansion. Maj.Gen. (Retd) B. C. Khanduri takes oath as Minister of State for Transport and Highways.
10/14/1885Mukandi Lal, famous Hindi writer, was born in Chamoli at U.P.
9/24/1999India's Krishnan Sasikiran and China's Wang Yu bagged the boys' and girl's titles respectively in the Asian Junior Chess championship in Vung Tau City, Vietnam.
12/5/1872Bhai Vir Singh, great poet, social worker, writer, educationist, musician, humanitarian and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Amritsar.
5/1/1992Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.