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Historical Event on 7/3/1956
Pandit Nehru and New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Sidney Holland are given the freedom of the City at London.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/31/1902 | Keshav Shankar Pillai, great writer and Padma Bhushan awardee, was born at Kayamkulam in Kerala. |
| 2/22/1997 | India, Turkmenistan and Iran sign transit agreement. |
| 2/8/1994 | Gopalrao Deuskar, internationally famed painter, passed away. |
| 7/22/1702 | The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company. |
| 8/3/1967 | Rasiklal Das, great revolutionary, died. |
| 4/3/1950 | Jayprakash Shankarrao Mundada, cabinet Minister of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, was born. |
| 9/30/1992 | Laurie Baker wins Rs. 25 lakh UN World Habitat award. |
| 6/9/1998 | Gujarat was hit by a cyclone killing 1,000 people in six days. |
| 5/8/1901 | British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population. |
| 2/2/1996 | Gold price zooms to all-time record high of Rs. 5600 per 10 grams. |
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