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Historical Event on 3/1/1997

Gopi Chand and P.V.V. Lakshmi retain individual titles and India takes team titles in SAARC badminton in Colombo.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
4/11/1999Chetan Baboor and Poulomi Ghatak won the men's and women's titles resp. in the India Cup table tennis in Mumbai.
12/8/1897Balkrishna Sharma ""Navin"", famous Hindi poet, was born in Bhyana village of Shajapur district in Madhya Pradesh
1/1/1985United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year as the ""International Youth Year""(IYY) with the theme ""Participation, Development and Peace"".
10/2/1969Gandhi's birth centenary celebrated all over the country.
8/16/1901Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born.
4/14/1914Takli Shivshankar, famous Malyalam novelist and short story writer, was born.
7/10/1977The Planning Commission decides to introduce Rolling Plan concept.
6/18/1940Forward Block Party was established.
11/18/1999Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir.