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Historical Event on 2/2/1986

Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/27/1994D. V. Purohit (Nanasaheb), veteran freedom figher and revolutionary, passed away.
5/11/1985Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.
3/26/1980Bombay gets its first rock concert in 10 years (The Police).
12/13/1989Kashmiri militants release the daughter of Indian Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed as five of their comrades freed from prison.
7/6/1998Salman Khursheed is appointed the new UPCC(I) chief. While Tindivanam K. Ramamurthy is the new TNCC(I) chief, Sat Mahajan has been appointed HPCC(I) president.
8/1/1846Dwarkanath Tagore, a Hindu philanthropist, died in London.
10/15/1995PM leaves for a 12-day tour of Egypt, NAM Summit at Cartagena in Columbia and 50th year United Nations celebrations at New York.
5/17/1916Gurusiddappa Sivappa, great industrialist, was born at Bangalore.
10/4/1953India elected to the UN Trusteeship Council.
10/4/1953Chandragupta I succeeded his father Ghatotkacha at Patliputra. He is known for establishing the Gupta dynasty. Gupta era begins.