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Historical Event on 2/2/1986

Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/1/1894Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born.
7/2/2000At least 30 people had died after a boat collapsed in Kumla river near Pratapur in Madhubani district of Bihar.
1/20/1871Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, famous Indian industrialist, was born.
1/29/1953Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated.
3/7/1974T. T. Krishnamachari, former Finance Minister, passed away.
2/24/1995A full Bench comprising Chief Justice M.M. Pareed Pillai, TV Ramakrishna and P. Shanmugam of the Kerala High Court quashed the words ""incestuous adultery"", ""adultery coupled with cruelty"" and ""adultery coupled with desertion"" contained in Section 10 of Indian (Christian) Divorce Act.
6/25/1992BJP bags eleven seats in the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha, Congress (I) secures seven.
6/9/1986ICMR set up a network of Reference/Surveillance Centres for AIDS in almost all states of India.
6/3/1818Maratha wars between British & Maratha Confederacy in India ends.
7/8/1928Eighteen died when an East Indian Railroad train was derailed after saboteurs removed part of the tracks.