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Historical Event on 4/3/1984

Bombay beat Delhi on first innings to win the Ranji Trophy.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/31/1907Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, famous ancient researcher and mathematician, was born.
5/5/1946Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous.
10/19/1920Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.
10/21/1947The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions), Lahore was bifurcated and the pension work relating to Indian nationals was transferred to Allahabad.
4/30/1909Sant Tukdoji Maharaj, great saint, patriot and social worker, was born at Yawali, district Amravati.
5/14/1907Muhammad Ayub Khan, Pakistani president, was born.
3/3/1948B. S. Munje, founder of Bhosla Military School, passed away.
11/1/1949Thomason Collage at Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, was raised to the status of an Engineering University - the first of its kind in India.
10/23/1970If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour
12/21/1788Sindhia arrested Gulam Qadir and killed him.