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Historical Event on 2/1/1986
Pope John Paul II arrives in New Delhi for a 10-day visit.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/1968 | Olympic Games open in Mexico City. |
| 1/2/1987 | Dr. Harekrushna Mahtab, great industrialist, leader and former Chief Minister of Orissa, died. |
| 11/14/1993 | Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian and social worker, passed away. |
| 11/30/1920 | N. B. Kamat, filmmaker and distributor, was born. |
| 5/11/1999 | Supreme Court confirms the death sentence on four of the 26 accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, reduces to life imprisonment the sentence on three others and acquits the remaining 19. |
| 4/13/1796 | The first elephant was brought to America from Bengal, India. |
| 1/3/1836 | Munshi Newal Kishore, son of Jamuna Prasad Bhargava--a zamindar of Aligarh-- and a great erudite scholar, educationist, nationalist, social worker and a pioneer industrialist, was born. He was the founder of Navalkishore Press, Lucknow (1858), which published 2612 books that elaborated Hindi literature. He was the Publisher of Awadhi Newspaper in Asia. |
| 11/13/1993 | The Indian hospital and aviation was operational immediately. The Indian contingent formally took charge of the responsibility of the capital city of Mogadishu. |
| 12/1/1946 | Australia compiled 645 vs India at Gabba. Bradman made 187 runs. |
| 4/29/1960 | Pandit Balkrishna Sarma ''Navin'', famous Hindi poet of modern era, passed away. |
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