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Historical Event on 2/3/1873
Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/10/1833 | Azad Muhammad Jussain, Urdu poet and educationalist, was born. |
| 4/14/1925 | Harisingh Gogumal Kishanchand, cricketer (5 Tests for India 1947-52), was born in Karachi. |
| 1/10/1967 | Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, laid the foundation stone of Women's University, Karnataka, founded to pay gratitude to Rani Chainema of Kitur. |
| 1/12/1992 | Kumar Gandharva (Shivputra Siddharamaiya Komkali), famous Classical singer, passed away at the age of 67. |
| 3/15/1996 | Kashmiri militants and Central govt. hold talks on ending violence and to initiate the democratic process in J&K. |
| 5/23/1990 | Banarasi Das Gupta elected CM of Haryana following Om Prakash Chautala's resignation. |
| 4/22/1930 | Civil Disobedience at Dandi, 6th April 1930 and Civil Disobedience at Bombay, 7th April 1930, both documentary films produced by Krishna Film Co., Bombay, were prohibited by Censor Board on April 22, on the grounds that they were calculated to foster resistance to Government and to promote a breach of Law and Order. |
| 8/27/1910 | Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], nobel Prize awardee and social worker, was born in Skopje, Macedonia in Yugoslavia. |
| 12/27/1975 | 372 miners die in a huge blast in Bihar state. |
| 1/24/1966 | Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha, chairmain of Atomic Research Institute, passed away near Geneva when Air India Boeing 707 crashed in accident at Alps Hills, Mont Blanc in Switzerland killing all the 117 persons on board. |
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