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Historical Event on 3/1/1996

Supreme Court frees CBI from the control of PM Rao and directs that CBI would take no instruction or permission from or report to any authority personally interested in or likely to be affected by the investigation into the hawala case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/24/193119 people were killed by police during the anti-Hindu rioting in Kashmir.
11/9/1999Prof. Romila Thapar, historian, is elected to the highest British academic honour.
11/19/1998Shruti Khanna won her Maiden title on Indian soil in the Northern India Ladies Championship at the Delhi Golf Course.
1/17/1992Shankar Ramchandra (Mamrao Date), veteran journalist, passed away.
3/4/1990V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue.
1/12/1990Upper age limit for Civil Services Examination raised from 26 to 28 years.
12/5/1950Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, great revolutionary, freedom fighter and teacher, passed away.
2/6/1931Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, revolutionary, founder of 'Swaraj Party', political leader and barrister, passed away at Lucknow.
9/21/1954Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
7/7/1901J. Watsan Harod started a branch of Gramophone Company at Calcutta.