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Historical Event on 8/3/1780
British officer captain Bruce conquered Gwalior fort under Major Popham after defeating Sindhiya.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/8/1947 | There was little time to celebrate independence in India and Pakistan as large parts of the dominions were paralyzed with fear. Mobs ran wild as Muslims and Hindus battled to death and turned streets into rivers of blood. |
| 5/12/1987 | Britain's HMS Hermes becomes Indian Navy's second aircraft carrier named INS Viraat. |
| 6/1/1997 | Ghulam Rasool Wani, National Conference leader, kidnapped and shot dead by militants at Kaskot in Doda district, Jammu. |
| 6/29/1999 | An Indian High Commissioner member N. R. Doraiswamy is beaten up by Pakistani intelligence operatives. |
| 5/28/1968 | Bhagwan Gopinathji Bhan, was a mystic saint of early 20th century Kashmir in India. He has been called a ""jivanmukta"" (liberated soul) or ""Aghoreshwar"" and his spiritual state has been described as ""Shambhavi Avastha"" (state of Shiva), died. He was a great devotee of Shiva and Shakti and took intense "Sadhana". His disciples and devotees set up an ashram at Kharyar in Srinagar in his name. |
| 5/10/1927 | Nayantara Sahgal, famous writer and social reformer, was born. |
| 8/23/2000 | India, Japan unveil new global partnership and agree to start a formal security dialogue. Sanctions status quo on CTBT. |
| 12/8/1875 | Tej Bahadur Sapru, great leader, was born. |
| 12/3/1971 | Pakistan took the initiative of striking the airfields both in the East and the West. While the IAF carried out retaliatory air strikes in the West and shot the Pakistan Air Force (PAP) out of the skies. |
| 11/29/1953 | Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague. |
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