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Historical Event on 2/2/1996
Gold price zooms to all-time record high of Rs. 5600 per 10 grams.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/31/1980 | Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary. |
| 3/22/1963 | World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways. |
| 1/31/2000 | All seven accused in the Jain hawala case discharged. |
| 11/8/2000 | Queen Ingrid (90), Denmark's Swedish born queen mother and great-grand daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, died in Copenhagen. |
| 1/3/1912 | Shantiprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 6/19/1990 | NDC approves approach paper to the Eighth Plan. |
| 6/3/1895 | Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, historian and Indian diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance), was born. |
| 3/13/1997 | H. D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, presented the G. K. Reddy Memorial Award to Shekhar Gupta, Chief Editor of The Indian Express. |
| 2/2/1915 | Khushvant Singh, famous journalist, was born. |
| 5/14/1995 | Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people. |
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