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Historical Event on 10/2/1952

Community Development Programme started.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/21/1977Neelam Sanjiva Reddi was elected as the President of India.
3/11/1824US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair.
3/13/1800Nana Phadanvis (Balaji Janardan Bhanu), veteran leader of Peshwa Kingdom, died.
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
1/7/1928Rajindranath, cricketer (4 stumpings in his only Test for India), was born at Amritsar.
10/3/1950India protests U.N. troops' crossing of 38th parallel in New York.
1/9/1994Indian diplomats and staff members evacuated from war-ravaged Kabul.
4/4/1947San Francisco's Henry Grady chosen the first U.S. ambassador to India.
4/4/1947Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.
7/25/1982Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (1913-1996) retired from the post of sixth President.