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Historical Event on 3/11/1997

Chennai police seize a large quantity of powerful explosives and arrest two Muslim fundamentalists.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/13/1951First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India.
12/17/1990N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
1/1/1985United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year as the ""International Youth Year""(IYY) with the theme ""Participation, Development and Peace"".
6/15/1947All-India Congress accepts British plan for partition of India in New Delhi.
9/3/1999India launches a new phase of military modernisation after the Kargil conflict.
11/27/1962Britain agreed to supply arms to India.
6/18/1978The Karakoram Highway, linking Gilgit in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir with Sinkiang in China, is opened.
1/20/1817Ram Mohun Roy started Hindu College in Calcutta with the help of Justice H. East David Hare. This college was later renamed as the Presidency College.
5/7/1994Ustad Jahiruddin Dagar Nasir, famous classical singer of Dhrupad-Dhamar, passed away at the age of 62 in Bareilly.
6/19/1990NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan.