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Historical Event on 11/2/1994
Three British hostages freed in Saharanpur, UP, after a fierce encounter.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/29/1968 | Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, one Test for India, died. |
| 5/28/1930 | Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing. |
| 7/10/1996 | Budget session of Parliament begins. |
| 12/28/1996 | India all out for 66 at Durban after making 100 in the first innings of the game. |
| 3/20/1952 | Anand Armitraj, great Indian tennis player (Brother of Vijay), was born. |
| 9/27/1999 | Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd. |
| 1/8/1965 | Star of India', world's largest sapphire, returned to American Museum of Natural History. |
| 2/17/1931 | Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"". |
| 4/8/1950 | Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact. |
| 9/30/1996 | Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996. |
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