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Historical Event on 10/2/1986
Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/1/1894 | Bhim Sen Sachar, freedom fighter, leader and Chief Minister of Punjab, was born. |
| 6/1/1947 | Balbhimraj Gore, litterateur and Hindi critic, was born. |
| 6/1/1947 | Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi. |
| 7/16/1996 | Supreme Court says dowry demand even during marriage talks is an offence. |
| 8/28/1994 | Three medical officers of the Field Ambulance unit were killed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia. |
| 8/1/1996 | T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998. |
| 10/6/1779 | Elphinston, historian and administrator of Mumbai province, was born. |
| 9/5/1997 | Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta. |
| 5/11/1965 | The first of two cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 people in the country. |
| 6/1/1995 | Kanshi Ram (Bahujan Samaj Party) withdraws support to the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led government in UP and stakes claim to form a new government. |
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