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Historical Event on 7/2/1905
Shantiswaroop Dhavan, former Governor of West Bengal, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/4/1974 | Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924. |
| 2/7/1981 | 61 die in circus fire in Bangalore. |
| 4/7/1998 | Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India. |
| 9/29/1959 | Arati Saha successfully swam the English Channel. She was the first Asian lady to achieve the feat. |
| 6/18/1993 | The 14th national council of the BJP at Bangalore swears by Hindutva. |
| 7/21/1995 | Sajjad Husain, famous film music director, passed away. |
| 3/31/1980 | Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary. |
| 7/23/1918 | Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 3/29/1954 | Indian Institute of Public Administration inaugurated. |
| 8/11/1999 | The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec. |
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