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Historical Event on 2/2/1982

Mohanlal Purushottamdas Sukhadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan, freedom fighter, passed away. He was the Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1954-1971. He introduced Panchayati Raj in Rajasthan and worked for its industrialisation also.

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6/25/1922Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
12/17/1938Charuchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali story writer and novelist, died.
6/1/1955India's Untouchability (Offence) Act comes into force.
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.
6/30/1995CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan.
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5/8/1906Prannath Thapar, former General of India, was born.
9/22/1937The last contingent of Indian freedom fighters was send to Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
9/29/1992Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes put India into the World round of 16 nations in the Davis Cup tennis by defeating Britain (4-1)