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Historical Event on 2/2/1949
Press Trust of India' was established.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/2/1929 | Amritlal Basu, famous Bengali playwright, died. |
| 6/23/1980 | Sanjay Gandhi, great Indian politician and younger son of Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash. He was recently appointed as the General Secretary of the AICC (I). |
| 9/24/1922 | Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah. |
| 8/22/1993 | Gundu Rao, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, died. He was 56. |
| 2/18/1974 | Daniel Moynihan, US ambassador to India, presents $2,046,700,000 cheque. |
| 2/19/1994 | Chambal dacoit Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, was freed on parole after 11 years of incarceration. |
| 1/24/1994 | Singapore PM Goh Chok Tong arrives in New Delhi on a state visit. |
| 5/21/1835 | Biharilal Chakravorty, Bengali poet, was born. |
| 12/28/1983 | Gavaskar achieves his 30th century beating Bradman's 29. |
| 7/8/1907 | Elphinstone Picture Palace was started by Jamshedji F. Madan at Calcutta. |
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