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Historical Event on 1/3/1997
Jayalalitha, former Tamil Nadu CM, inprisoned for 27 days, released on bail.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/28/1997 | Election Commission orders that no convicted person will be allowed to contest elections even if an appeal against the conviction was pending in a higher court. |
| 2/7/1983 | Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta . |
| 9/27/2000 | Venus Williams of USA claims the women's gold in the tennis event in the Sydney Olympics. |
| 3/16/1998 | Sonia Gandhi is elected chairperson of the Congress(I) Parliamentary Party. |
| 10/6/1997 | Abhijit Kunte wins Asian Junior Chess title. |
| 8/29/1975 | Adinath Lahiri, leading geologist, passed away. |
| 11/2/1885 | Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died. |
| 2/10/1921 | Wilhelm Conrad Von Roentgen, professor and nobel prize winner, passed away. |
| 1/14/1994 | The first Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centenary Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research, instituted by ICMR in 1991-92, was announced in 1994 (Dr. G. Padamanabhan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is the first recipient of this Award). |
| 7/2/1757 | Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula was captured and assassinated. He was stabbed with a knife by Muhammad Beg at the instance of Miran, son of Mir Zafar. |
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