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Historical Event on 9/2/1956
Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/21/1990 | Doordarshan starts afternoon news bulletins at 2 p.m. (Hindi) and 3 p.m. (English) of 7.5 minutes duration on week days and 5 minutes on Sundays. |
| 4/1/1976 | Television was separated from radio, and Doordarshan Corporation was established. |
| 10/11/1962 | Chinese, Indian troops clash on border, claiming 50 lives. |
| 6/11/1907 | Shantilal Jivanlal Gandhi, famous Hindi writer, was born in Mehmadabad, Gujarat . |
| 4/22/1999 | Lok Sabha passes the 1999-2000 general budget through voice vote but without a debate and without amendments. |
| 5/18/1972 | Kokan Krishi (Agriculture) University was established. |
| 10/29/1997 | P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000. |
| 11/3/1992 | Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 5/22/1940 | Erapalli Anantrao Srinivasarao Prasanna, cricketer (one of India's big four spinners, Right-arm Off-break Bowler), was born at Bangalore. He is also the receipent of Arjun Award (1968) and Padmashree (1970). |
| 3/13/1938 | Hitler merged Austria in Germany. |
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