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Historical Event on 2/2/1953

All India Khadi and Village Industries Board started in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
9/21/1954Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
9/21/1954Babur Shah was declared as the Emperor of Dehli.
4/24/1980Baba Gurbachan Singh, Nirankari chief, assassinated. His son named as the new chief.
1/11/1966Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian Prime Minister (1964-66), passed away at Tashkent, U.S.S.R. at 1:32, age 61. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously.
8/6/1997Cabinet approves a proposal to amend the Hindu Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act, with a view to removing epilepsy as a ground for annulling marriage or for declaring marriage as null and void.
1/3/1880Publication of 'Illustrated Weekly of India' started.
2/16/1986The Silver Jubilee of I.N.S.- Vikrant, India's only aircraft carrier, fails.
10/17/1915Virendra Kumar Jain, great Hindi writer, was born in Mandsaur.
12/24/1988Jaynendra Kumar, famous Hindi novelist, died.