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Historical Event on 7/3/1956

Pandit Nehru and New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Sidney Holland are given the freedom of the City at London.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/13/1996Lok Sabha election results (534 out of 537) announced, giving BJP (161) the position of the largest single party.
10/2/1997At least 50 Pakistan soldiers were killed and several injured in a retaliatory firing by Indian troops in Nowgam, Uri and Kupwara sectors. Firing had been intermittent along LoC.
3/26/1931New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies.
5/13/1956Acharya Vinoba Bhave started the Bhoodan campaign in Tiruvellore.
4/1/1996Kerala introduces ban on arrack. 5614 licenced arrack shops closed down.
4/1/1996A battle was fought at Turkra or Turkra Qasba (in the Balasore district) in which the Afghans were routed.
6/24/1966Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.
7/30/1996Delhi High Court rejects Narasimha Rao's petition seeking quashing of 09 order of chief metropolitan magistrate summoning him to appear as co-accused in the $ 100,000 Lakhubhai cheating case.
1/14/1761The third and last battle of Panipat, fought between the Marathas and the Afghan invader Ahmad Shah Abadli, started. The Marathas lost 28,000 soldiers and were virtually routed in North India thus ending the Maratha hegemony.
10/27/1947Indian Governments accepts King of Jammu and Kashmir Maharaja Harisingh's accession merging Jammu and Kashmir in India and sends its troops. Accession of Jammu and Kashmir was then officially announced. No. 12 Sqn was to initiate the remarkable feat of air-lifting the first Sikhs from Palam onto the rough and dusty Srinagar airstrip without planning or reconnaissance as the initial Indian response to the sizeable insurgent forces that were pouring across the border into Jammu and Kashmir.