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Historical Event on 2/3/1954
More than 500 pilgrims died in an accident on the river bank at the ""Kumbha Mela"" in Allahabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/1/1913 | Ghadar Movement started at San Francisco. |
| 1/10/1996 | All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films. |
| 7/1/1984 | Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, died at the age of 101. |
| 9/21/1857 | Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops. |
| 5/8/1901 | British commission claims famine has taken 1.25 million lives since 1899; blames over population. |
| 1/14/1995 | Ban on VHP re-imposed. |
| 4/8/1997 | India creates history by entering the semi-finals of the 12th Jawaharlal Nehru Gold Cup international football series for the first time after holding Ghana 2-2 at Kochi. |
| 6/18/1997 | E.K. Nayanar, Kerala Chief Minister, meets Pope John Paul II in Vatican. |
| 7/21/1891 | Jairamdas Doulatram, great leader, journalist and freedom fighter, was born at Karachi. |
| 4/10/1996 | The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt. |
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