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Historical Event on 4/2/1870
Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was found. 95 members from different parts of Maharashtra assembled in Pune during its founding.
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| 1/6/1976 | Baliram Bhagat elected Lok Sabha Speaker. |
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| 8/29/2000 | Supreme Court releases of 115 'Veerappan aides' on bail or otherwise till further orders. |
| 12/12/1908 | Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire. |
| 12/12/1908 | Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs. |
| 2/10/1943 | Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3. |
| 11/22/1993 | Gulshen Ahmed, Himachal Governor, resigns in the wake of an official report that he canvassed for his son in Satna. |
| 10/9/1999 | Sunil Kumar and Sai Jayalakshmy won the men's and women's titles respectively in the National Tennis championship in Delhi. Akshay Vishal Rao emerged boys' under-18 champion. |
| 9/21/1966 | Mihir Sen swam the Bay of Persia. |
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