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Historical Event on 2/2/1996
Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/4/1977 | Ajit Agarkar, promising Indian ODI all-rounder, was born. |
| 1/12/1901 | Umashankar Dikshit, senior leader of Indira Congress, was born. |
| 10/3/1906 | Govind Vinayak Devansthali, Sanskrit researcher, dictionary creator, professor and journalist, was born in Bombay. |
| 7/24/1997 | Mahasweta Devi, Bengali litterateur, is recipient of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, literature and creative communication arts for her writings on indigenous communities. |
| 3/3/1707 | Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First. |
| 12/28/1930 | Police are stoned by demonstrators as they attempt to prevent an illegal flag-salutation ceremony at Bombay. |
| 10/25/1951 | First General Election of India begins. |
| 2/15/1865 | Kishorilal Goswami, Hindi novelist, was born. |
| 3/27/1767 | Khanderao Holkar, one of the Generals in Peshwa kingdom, passed away. |
| 8/29/1993 | Tamil refugees leave Madras for Sri Lanka apparently on their own free will. |
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