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Historical Event on 2/2/1996
Doordarshan Kendra was inagurated at Port Blair.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/31/1941 | Milkha Singh Govindsingh Amritsar, cricketer (brother of Kripal Singh, Indian batsman in 4 Tests), was born in Madras. |
| 2/1/1994 | PM Rao attends the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos, Switzerland. |
| 5/17/1974 | Durgadas, famous Indian journalist, passed away. |
| 1/14/1641 | United East Indian Company conquers city of Malakka, 7,000 killed. |
| 3/25/1898 | Dalpatrai (Dalpatram Dahyabhai Trawadi), modern Gujrati poet, passed away. |
| 6/9/1986 | First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai. |
| 5/7/1973 | Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died. |
| 4/20/1938 | Bhartacharya Chintamanrao Vinayak Vaidya, omnicient research scientist and expert of Marathi and English languages, passed away. |
| 12/26/1978 | Indira Gandhi released after week in jail for refusing to testify on corruption. |
| 9/20/1940 | Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born. |
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