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Historical Event on 7/3/1991

Kailash Sethi was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 22-07-1996.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/14/1998India is elected chairperson of the World Intellectual Property Organisation's standing panel on information technology in relation to Intellectual Property Rights.
12/24/1809Christopher ""Kit"" Carson, KY, union brig-general and Indian fighter, was born.
12/12/1930Babu Genu sacrificed his life to stage the boycott of foreign goods.
5/19/1951Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away.
1/26/1961Special stamps dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi in the Champion of Liberty series issued by the United States postal department.
8/10/1991Delhi airport police foils an attempt by a Saudi national to smuggle out a minor girl named Ameena.
5/13/1991P. Sudhir Kumar released in exchange for a few Naxals in jail.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
12/21/1998The Viswabharati University in Calcutta presents the 'Deshikottama' award to Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen.
4/1/1882Savings Bank Postal system was introduced.