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Historical Event on 9/2/1996
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 9/13/2000 | Central Government withdraws the ban on use of non-iodised salt despite protests from the medical community and several state governments. |
| 1/22/1990 | FIR registered in Bofors kickbacks case. |
| 5/24/1960 | Dr. Ida Sophie Schruder, founder of famous 'Vellore Hospital', passed away in Kodaikanal. |
| 5/5/1929 | Curfew was imposed in a bid to quell Hindu-Muslim riots that had claimed 21 lives in Bombay. |
| 3/29/1857 | Sepoy Mangal Pandey shot the first bullet of 1857 Indian mutiny in the barracks of Barrackpur near Calcutta against British Empire. This was the starting of the mutiny. |
| 7/15/1948 | Establishment of 'PEPS' (Patiyala and East Punjab States Union). |
| 7/15/1948 | Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution. |
| 10/27/1605 | Akbar (Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din), Mughal emperor of India (1556-1605), passed away of diarrhea or dysentery at the age of 63 years. After his death his body was buried at a mausoleum in Sikandra, Agra. |
| 11/27/1888 | Ganesh Vasudeo Malvankar, great social worker, educationist, writer and first speaker of Lok Sabha, was born in Baroda. |
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