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Historical Event on 11/2/1885
Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first great Marathi musical drama playwright, died.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/22/1992 | India launches its 'Agni' rocket. |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 11/16/1999 | Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'. |
| 1/12/1948 | Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji. |
| 4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
| 10/20/1752 | The grateful Wazir induced the emperor to make Badan Singh the 'Raja' with the title of Mahendra, and Suraj Mal the 'Mumar Bahadur' with the title of Rajendra. |
| 5/29/1953 | Ranji Nanan, cricketer (Trinidad off-spinner, 1 Test v Pakistan 1981), was born. |
| 1/14/1994 | C. V. Waran, veteran freedom fighter and social worker, passed away. |
| 3/17/1957 | New Central Cabinet under J. L. Nehru sworn in. |
| 3/29/1849 | Maharaj Dulip Singh left the throne of Punjab that once belonged to his late father Ranjit Singh and was then occupied by the East India Company. The Britishers had captured it after defeating the Sikh Army at Amritsar. |
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