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Historical Event on 9/2/1894

Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/21/1990Prasar Bharati Bill moved in the Lok Sabha .
8/21/1990Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi.
3/9/199314 bus passengers burnt to death in Andhra .
5/28/1978The kiss comes to the Hindi screen in 'Love Sublime,' and is seen as a sign of what the govt. calls greater 'creative freedom,' after Indira Gandhi's authoritarian rule at Bombay.
9/18/1867Ganganendranath Tagore, great painter, patriot and artist, was born in Calcutta.
4/15/1992Union Carbide decides to sell its holdings in India to raise upto $ 17 million for a hospital in Bhopal.
10/24/1995Total solar eclipse seen over Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, while partial eclipse seen in the rest of the country.
7/1/1952Olympic Games open at Helsinki.
2/22/1946Curfew imposed till 9 p.m. by the British in Bombay as rioting and looting continued for the second day.
4/30/1981C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 08-02-1985.