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Historical Event on 2/7/1856

Wajid Ali Shah, ruler of Oudh, was asked to abdicate by the British Resident on grounds of chronic misrule.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/2/1982Mohanlal 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.
2/2/1930Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away.
4/17/1990Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, famous Director of Raja Kelkar Museum, passed away.
12/8/1999Dr. Shankar K. Pal of the Indian Statistical Institute selected for the G.D. Birla Award for 1999.
4/6/1664Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
8/2/1987Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.
12/5/2000Postal staff go on a nationwide indefinite strike which the Government termed as 'illegal'.
2/2/1996Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair.
7/24/2000S. Vijayalakshmi becomes the first Indian woman Grandmaster in the International Grandmasters chess tournament held in Hyderabad.