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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 |
| 12/10/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. |
| 8/1/1997 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil. |
| 2/2/1996 | Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair. |
| 12/27/1988 | The first hot-air Cross India Balloon started its flight in Rajasthan. |
| 8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
| 7/11/2000 | Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"". |
| 3/1/1917 | Kartar Singh Duggal, famous author, was born at Dhamyal, Pakistan. |
| 1/24/1976 | Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries. |
| 2/2/1949 | Press Trust of India' was established. |
| 3/1/1919 | Mahatma Gandhi announced his desire to start 'Satyagraha' against proposed Rowlatt Act meant to curb civil and political liberties. |
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