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Historical Event on 8/2/1880
Bellary Raghava, famous actor, lawyer, social worker and dramatist, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/15/1948 | Subhadra Kumari Chauhan, famous Hindi poet, political agitator, critic and freedom fighter, passed away near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, in an automobile accident. |
| 11/20/1888 | Gurunath Bewoor, director general, was born at Bewoor village, district Bijapur. |
| 6/18/1993 | Advani takes over as party President. |
| 11/13/1953 | Richard Nixon, the US Vice President, arrives in New Delhi. |
| 7/25/1970 | Pillai A. Thanu, former Chief Minister of Kerala, passed away. |
| 10/31/1984 | Indira Gandhi, India's four-time prime minister, was gunned down by two members of her personal security guard as she walked from her home to her office in New Delhi. She died after four hours of emergency surgery. The only daughter of former Prime Minister Nehru was 66. Both of her attackers were identified as members of the Sikh religion. One was shot dead. The other was captured. Sikh extremists had threatened to kill Ms. Gandhi since she ordered the raid on their shrine in Amritsar. She had told an interviewer that she was not intimidated by the threats. 'I am not afraid,' she said. 'I am frequently attacked.' |
| 1/30/1947 | Gandhiji leaves Patna for Delhi. Mountbatten, new Viceroy, arrives in Delhi. |
| 7/1/1862 | Calcutta High Court was established for West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. This Court has a Circuit Bench at Port Blair. |
| 4/8/1985 | India files suit against Union Carbide in New York for Bhopal gas disaster. |
| 11/24/1991 | Bihar's ruling JD makes a clean sweep of all the three Lok Sabha seats in the by-elections. |
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