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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 |
| 2/9/1989 | Sanjay Khan, actor-director, critically injured in a fire accident. |
| 10/31/1885 | St. Stephen's Hospital was opened. It was the first hospital for women and children at Delhi. |
| 3/25/1998 | Yashwant Sinha, Finance Minister, and Railway Minister Nitish Kumar present the interim budgets for 1998- 99. |
| 6/27/1995 | Environmentalist and 'Chipko' leader, Shri Sunderlal Bahuguna ends the 49-day old fast in demand for a scientific review of the controversial Tehri dam project in UP. |
| 2/21/1997 | Sonic Multani bags National snooker title in Mumbai. |
| 3/12/1988 | Samresh Basu, famous Bengali writer, passed away. |
| 1/11/1859 | Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born. |
| 5/19/1993 | Government decides to merge Vayudut with Indian Airlines. |
| 5/6/1952 | Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education. |
| 1/16/1948 | Pakistan charges India with systematic campaign to wipe out Muslims. |
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