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Historical Event on 1/2/1905
Jainendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist and patriot, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/13/1911 | Sister Nivedita, follower of Vivekanand, died. |
| 10/21/1954 | Government of India and France sign an agreement for the de-facto transfer of the French settlement of Pondicherry, Karaikal, Mahe to the Indian Union. The merger took place on November 1. |
| 8/1/1947 | Partition of India into India and Pakistan. Power transferred. Lord Mountbatten becomes Governor General of India and Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Governor General of Pakistan. |
| 1/8/1884 | Keshav Chunder Sen, nationalist leader of Bengal, social worker and good orator of Brahma Samaj, passed away at his home in Lily Cottage, Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in our country. He strongly believed that education was the basic necessity to change the society. |
| 9/12/1974 | . C. Yohannan at Teheran, sets record for LJ in 8.07. |
| 4/12/1983 | Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' wins 8 Oscars. |
| 9/2/1911 | Chamaklal Dahyabhai Vyas, great poet, was born at Gujarat, Vyara. |
| 12/1/1989 | V. P. Singh is named the new prime minister. |
| 4/14/1995 | India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah. |
| 7/18/1987 | Arun Singh, union minister of state for defence, resigns from the cabinet. |
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