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Historical Event on 8/2/1919
Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born.
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| 5/7/1973 | Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died. |
| 11/1/2000 | Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi. |
| 6/24/1996 | Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party. |
| 8/9/1999 | India's Manisha Malhotra won the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tournament at Harrisonburg, Virginia for her maiden tour title. |
| 1/16/2000 | P. Moses, Indian High Commission Staff member, badly beaten up and abducted by Pakistani intelligence operators in Islamabad. |
| 12/30/1865 | Rudyard Kipling, famous English litterateur and author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), was born in Bombay. |
| 2/18/1899 | Jainarain Vyas, leader, freedom fighter and social reformer, was born at Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He played a leading role in creating united Rajasthan by integration of various states of Rajputana. He was the first Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1951 to 1954. |
| 1/10/1616 | Sir Thomas Row, first English Ambassador, submitted his identification to Emperor Jahangir at Ajmer. |
| 12/20/1866 | Panchkadi Banerjee, famous journalist and editor, was born. |
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