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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
3/19/1939Abbas Ali Baig, cricketer (Indian bat 112 on debut v England 1959), was born in Hyderabad.
9/14/1910Dennis Laurence Amo, merchant and industrialist in Maharashtra, was born.
3/25/193150 killed in riots in India; Gandhi assaulted.
9/12/1905Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London.
5/17/1857Bahadhur Shah II declared as the emperor of India.
8/23/1947Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was sworn is as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
9/27/1999Harshad Mehta and three others are convicted for misappropriating surplus funds of the Maruti Udyog Ltd.
3/1/1908Tata Iron & Steel Company was the first steel company to be established in India.
4/1/1992ESI ceiling of Rs. 3000 comes into effect.
2/4/1974Satyendra Nath Bose, a noted mathematician, professor and physicist, passed away at Calcutta. He contributed greatly to statictical mechanics, the electromagnetic properties of ionosphere, the therories of X-ray crystallography and thermoluminescence, and unified field theory. Bose instituted ""Planck's Law and the Hypothesis of Light Quana"" in 1924.