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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 |
| 9/21/1996 | Rao resigns Congress Party President post. |
| 7/11/1973 | India frees 438 Pakistani prisoners on medical grounds. |
| 10/2/1961 | Indian Limited Shipping Transport Corporation established. |
| 2/27/1993 | Rupee made fully convertible in Man Mohan Singh's third successive budget. |
| 12/20/1993 | Jaichandran Nair, Colonel Neelkantan, died. |
| 7/20/2000 | In a nationwide swoop, IT Department officials search the residences of cricketers Kapil Dev, Mohammad Azharuddin, Ajay Jadeja and former ICC Chairman Jagmohan Dalmiya and recover incriminating documents. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
| 8/11/1911 | Prem Bhatia, great journalist, was born. |
| 5/10/1901 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists today on May 10, 1901 proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". |
| 1/23/1976 | Gautam Buddha's lost city of Kapilavastu was found in an excavation. |
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