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Historical Event on 8/2/1891
Padmashree V. P. Karmarkar (Nanasaheb), famous sculptor, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/19/1997 | India wins the Sahara Cup by winning the third match too. |
| 5/23/1931 | Sharad Joshi, famous Hindi poet, playwright and journalist, was born. |
| 12/10/1990 | The communal disturbances between Hindus and Muslims in Hyderabad claim more than 100 lives, and violence spreads to Aligarh and Kanpur also. |
| 6/23/1997 | Communication equipment worth several crores destroyed and Chennai's land and mobile telephone networks thrown out of gear in a fire at Anna Road telephone exchange. |
| 1/18/1982 | Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi. |
| 5/17/1957 | Nehru, who went to Ceylon to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary of the founding of Buddhism, calls for an end to nuclear tests. |
| 12/19/2000 | The Government suffers an embarrassing defeat with the Rajya Sabha adopting a motion recording its ""disagreement'' with the Prime Minister for defending three of his Cabinet colleagues charged in the Babri Masjid demolition case. |
| 8/29/1947 | A conference of the Governor General and the two PMs of India and Pakistan with their military commanders to stop communal riots in the Punjab. |
| 11/5/1892 | John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, biologist, was born at Oxford. |
| 7/2/1905 | Shantiswaroop Dhavan, former Governor of West Bengal, was born. |
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