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Historical Event on 2/2/1993
Prices of iron and steel hiked.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/24/1867 | Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born. |
| 10/20/1997 | Veerappan, the forest brigand, releases the six hostages after 12 days. |
| 10/13/1978 | Maharashtra branch of Forward Block Party merged in Indira Congress. |
| 2/22/1858 | Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 10/28/1996 | Press Council of India to set up a 5-member committee headed by Chairman P.B. Sawant to inquire into the attack on journalists outside the New Delhi residence of Kanshi Ram. |
| 2/25/1840 | Vinayak Konddev Oak, Marathi litteratewur, was born. |
| 3/28/1991 | IAF men die in an air crash in Bangalore. |
| 6/9/1834 | Dr. William Carey, great writer and social worker, died. |
| 5/10/1981 | The first day and night cricket match of India was played at the flood-lit ground of the Wilson College Gymkhana (Bombay). |
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