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Historical Event on 2/2/1977

Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/29/1998Government decides to grant full statehood for Delhi and create three new States namely Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chattisgarh.
3/21/1979The Cytology Research Centre was set up at New Delhi (renamed as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology in 1988).
5/1/1972All fuel coal mines were nationalised.
1/30/1911Gajananrao Joshi, famous violin player and singer of ""Gwalior Gharana"", was born.
1/11/1994Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy.
6/24/1966Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die.
5/28/1992Indo-US naval exercises begin.
4/23/1959Peking Radio reports say that Chinese troops defeated rebels in south-eastern Tibet and have closed Tibet's borders with India and Burma.
7/5/1916Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore.
10/15/1676King of England permitted the East India Company to mint the Rupee and Paisa coins at Bombay.