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Historical Event on 2/7/1985

Uday Merchant, cricketer (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/7/1993Sai Baba escapes attempt on life. Four assailants and two bodyguards were killed.
1/16/1942Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Gandhi as head of Indian National Congress.
8/1/1899Kamala Nehru, wife of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, great revolutionary freedom fighter and social worker, was born.
6/20/1997Second round of Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan starts in Islamabad.
3/26/1969Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-), was born in Jalandhar.
9/11/1950Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's first 2 tests 1932-33), passed away.
3/30/1993S. M. Pandit, famous painter, passed away.
3/24/2000Rupali Repale of India becomes the first woman and the youngest to swim the Robben Island channel-both ways.
5/15/1992BSE closed.
9/24/1992Karnataka High Court stays government order granting permission to open nine private engineering colleges.