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Historical Event on 9/2/1996

Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/15/1817Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali social reformer and father of Rabindranath Tagore, was born.
9/12/1965Army fights back heavy Indian tank attacks at Pakistan.
11/23/1926Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian plant physiologist and physicist, passed away. He investigated the properties of very short radio waves, wireless telegraphy and radiation-induced fatigue in inorganic materials. His physiological work involved comparative measurements of the responses of plants exposed to stress. His invention of highly sensitive instruments for the detection of minute responses by living organisms to external stimuli enabled him to anticipate the parallelism between animal and plant tissues noted by later bio-physicists.รก
2/12/1932Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay.
12/23/1944U C Joshi, cricketer (Sussex off-spinner 1970-74 from India), was born.
3/8/1986L.K. Advani elected President of BJP.
6/24/1897Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat.
3/30/1993S. M. Pandit, famous painter, passed away.
1/19/1982Mizo National Front and allied organizations declared illegal.
8/26/1914Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities.