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Historical Event on 5/3/1718

Baba Jassa Singh Ahluwalia, great freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Ahlu village, Lahore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1933Gandhi starts hunger strike to protest the British repression of untouchables.
7/12/1970Major flood in Alaknanda river resulted in sweeping of buses and claimed 600 lives.
10/21/1934Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary.
1/1/1934Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka.
9/18/1615Thomas Roe presented himself at Jahangir's court in Ajmer. He left India on February 17, 1618.
10/31/1962Krishna Menon, Home Minister, resign due to attack by China.
4/14/1914Takli Shivshankar, famous Malyalam novelist and short story writer, was born.
6/23/1927All India Radio's broadcasting service started in 1927 by privately owned transmitter at Bombay and Calcutta.
3/22/1964200 die in communal violence in the industrial towns of Jamshedpur and Rourkela.
3/1/196325 Sqn, AF was formed with 04XAN-12 aircraft acquired from the erstwhile USSR. This was to supply lines to the Army in the Northern Sector encompassing J&K and Ladakh regions.