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Historical Event on 9/3/1997

India and E.U. sign an agreement envisaging a $200 m. E.U. aid for the country's primary health care programme.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1971Sadik Gulam Muhammad, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, died.
6/3/1997Four women ministers (Renuka Choudhry, Kamala Sinha, Ratnamala Savanur & Jayanti Natarajan) join I K Gujral cabinet.
8/29/1956India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
8/10/1930In the 'Gandhi Cap Case' in Guntur, the magistrate prohibits wearing of Gandhi caps within a five-mile radius of the town.
5/26/1997Government decides to allow the use of environment-friendly LPG as a motor vehicle fuel.
4/19/1950Shyama Prasad Mukherji resigned. He was the first Minister of Central Cabinet.
11/2/1972ICMR set up a chain of regional centres of National Nutrition Monitoring and 500 Indians seize Washington Bureaux in different parts of India.
1/20/1999Renowned playwright Girish Karnad is selected for the 1998 Jnanpith Award.
8/21/1995Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, noted physics scientist, died at the age of 84. He was one of the world's leading astro-physicists for his contributions to the study of stars. Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science--the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
2/13/1945Vinod Mehra, famous Hindi film actor, was born.