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Historical Event on 2/2/1915
Khushvant Singh, famous journalist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/3/1988 | Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives. |
| 7/20/1991 | Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, former Maharaja of Travancore, passed away at the age of 78 years after a brief illness. His term as the descendant of the Chera dynasty saw many progressive reforms in the field of legislation, education and many more. He was hailed as ""Ashoka the second"", and Gandhiji parised him as a ""Historical wonder"". |
| 2/7/1994 | C. T. Kamdar, famous industrialist and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. |
| 12/4/1888 | Romesh Chandra Majumdar, great Bengali historian, was born. |
| 12/28/1983 | Gavaskar achieves his 30th century beating Bradman's 29. |
| 3/19/1848 | Lokhitwadi started his column 'Shatpatra' in the newspaper named 'Prabhakar'. |
| 12/12/1964 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, famous Indian poet, Hindi litterateur, writer, social worker, patriot and Padma Bhushan awardee, died. |
| 5/11/1991 | Naxalities in Andhra abduct P. Sudhir Kumar, son of the former Union Minister Shiv Shankar. |
| 3/28/1941 | Netaji Subhashchandra Bose reached Berlin after his secret underground journey from Calcutta. |
| 8/25/1992 | Mi-4 was re-equipped with the mighty Mi-35 Squadron and was renamed as 104-Helicopter Squadron. |
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