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Historical Event on 3/3/1924
Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/16/1992 | The PM gives a new slogan to the nation, 'Desh banao, desh bachao'. |
| 7/4/1729 | Kanhoji Angre, former Chief of Navy in Maratha kingdom, died. |
| 10/2/1997 | At least 50 Pakistan soldiers were killed and several injured in a retaliatory firing by Indian troops in Nowgam, Uri and Kupwara sectors. Firing had been intermittent along LoC. |
| 1/1/1979 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""International Year of the Child"". |
| 12/7/1856 | First Hindu widow married officially. |
| 7/9/1999 | Ashok Mitra (82), noted writer, academician and former bureaucrat, died in Calcutta. |
| 3/25/1927 | Leslie Claudius, India field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
| 9/21/1938 | Prof. Raghuveer Singh Rathore, Cricket Test umpire for one test in 1990-91, was born in Rajasthan. |
| 11/29/2000 | India strikes a counter-trade oil deal with Iraq as part of an effort to build a strategic relationship with Baghdad. |
| 7/29/1901 | Rudyard Kipling, the renowned author of stories and poems about colonial India and an unofficial spokesman for the British Empire, joined the rising chorus of criticism in regard to Britain's conduct in the increasingly unpopular Boer War. |
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