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Historical Event on 2/3/1986
Pope John Paul II meets Mother Teresa at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/8/1953 | Walchand Hirachand, great Industrialist, passed away. |
| 4/8/1993 | CBI extensively raided VHP offices; BJP MP Brijbhushan Saren Singh among five arrested. |
| 9/29/1977 | India and Bangladesh signed settlement for distributing Ganga river water. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 7/27/1982 | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi first visited the US in almost 11 years. |
| 3/3/1989 | Gwal Pahari in Haryana switched on the solar energy centre of the first pilot 50 kilowatt solar power plant. |
| 12/20/1866 | Panchkadi Banerjee, famous journalist and editor, was born. |
| 11/1/1913 | Ghadar Movement started at San Francisco. |
| 1/6/1842 | 4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul.. |
| 7/23/1993 | Indian National Satellite (INSAT-2B), second satellite in the INSAT-2 series, was launched. This is more operational multi-purpose communication and enhanced meteorology satellite. It is still in service. It was aunched by European Ariane launch vehicle. |
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