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Historical Event on 2/2/1967
US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/14/1969 | 85 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur. |
| 5/24/1903 | Hemchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
| 12/25/1995 | First major multi-organ transplant in the country performed in Apollo Hospital in Madras. |
| 9/24/1873 | Mahatma Jyotirao Phule established the 'Satyashodhak Samaj'. |
| 2/19/1993 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President. |
| 6/17/1993 | K. D. Dharmadhikari (Nana), veteran freedom fighter, died. |
| 11/27/1999 | BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats. |
| 11/11/1924 | Rusi Sheriyar Modi, cricketer (Indian batsman in post-War years), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
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