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Historical Event on 2/3/1916

Banaras Hindu University was opened under the guidance of Madan Mohan Malaviya.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/12/1905Mulkraj Anand, Indo-Anglian novelist and critic of international repute, was born in Peshawar, Pakistan.
4/2/1948Communist leader S.A. Dange arrested in Bombay.
6/1/1874East India Company was dissolved.
4/15/1997Interest rate on domestic term deposits brought down from 10 to nine per cent by RBI.
1/2/1943Vir Bhai Kotwal sacrificed his life.
1/16/1985Balram Jakhar elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
12/23/1912Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast.
1/14/1896Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance Minister of India, was born.
7/24/1997Country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna conferred on former interim Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda and posthumously on freedom-fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
7/14/196985 persons were killed when a freight train collided with a passanger train near Jaipur.