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Historical Event on 5/2/1981
Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/3/1983 | Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi. |
| 3/15/1983 | Karnataka beat Bombay in 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy. |
| 3/31/1994 | Argentina President Carlos Menem visits India. |
| 6/25/1900 | Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England. |
| 6/21/1994 | The Janata Dal splits again, 14 of its 39 Lok Sabha members seek separate seats as a group. |
| 2/28/1997 | The samadhi of Morarji Desai - Abhay Ghat - near Sabarmati Ashram, Ahmedabad to be converted to a national monument, this was decided on Feburary 11. |
| 9/11/1987 | Mahadevi Verma, Gyanpith award winner and one of the greatest luminaries of modern Hindi literature, passed away. |
| 2/10/1943 | Gandhi begins hunger strike to protest imprisonment. This strike lasted for 21 days till March 3. |
| 10/16/1999 | Dr. Najma Heptulla, Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, is elected president of the 138-nation Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). |
| 9/14/1932 | Durgavati Devi aka Durga Bhabhi, an revolutionary and freedom fighter, was born. |
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