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Historical Event on 10/2/1942
Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/23/1977 | Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born. |
| 5/22/1996 | United Front prime ministerial candidate H.D. Deve Gowda unanimously elected leader of the Front's parliamentary party. |
| 1/11/1955 | Production of Newsprint paper factory started for the first time in India. |
| 4/23/1928 | Narasimha Murtey, educationist, was born at Nandur, A.P. |
| 5/13/1994 | Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament. |
| 2/25/1995 | Bomb attack on a train in Assam; 27 soldiers killed. |
| 6/30/1986 | Mizoram became the state of India. |
| 3/24/1896 | Thiripad V. T. Bhatt, author and journalist, was born. |
| 12/19/1860 | Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-1856), died. |
| 1/1/1900 | Doordrahsan was started.
Doordarshan is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, which is owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and is one of two divisions of Prasar Bharati. |
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