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Historical Event on 2/3/1992

Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/1/1900Sathya Sai Baba was born
8/15/1997K. R. Narayanan, President, posthumously confers nation's highest peace-time gallantry award 'Ashok Chakra' to second Lieutenant Puneet Dutta.
3/22/1991President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament.
12/15/1965Maharastra State Agriculture Industry Development Corporation established.
6/29/199324 jawans were killed in ambush by NSCN militants in Manipur.
12/19/1995Unidentified aircraft drops a heap of sophisticated arms and ammunition, including AK-47 rifles, rocket launchers and anti-tank grenades in Purulia district in West Bengal.
6/1/1930First Indian luxurious fast train 'Deccan Queen' started from Victoria Terminus (CST) to Pune.
8/9/1998India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports.
12/28/1983Gavaskar achieves his 30th century beating Bradman's 29.
10/21/1762Herman W Daendels, Brig-General and Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1807-11), was born.