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Historical Event on 9/2/1947

Gandhiji is mobbed in Calcutta house; gives up idea of Noakhali visit. Peace efforts intensified.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/10/1995Harishankar Parsai, famous Hindi litterateur, passed away.
2/12/1928Lalit Mohan Sharma, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, was born.
10/27/1969Darshansingh Pheruman died in Amritsar during the 74th day of his fast, which he had undertaken for the merger of Chandigarh in Punjab.
11/8/1948Nathuram Godse confesses to murder of Gandhi but denies conspiracy.
8/10/1986Gen. A.S. Vaidya, who was Chief of Army Staff, at the time of 'Operation Blue Star', was shot dead at Pune.
3/17/1955Indian Standard's Institute started working to control the quality of Indian products and the ISI mark was issued to quality products.
6/24/1996Nanchil K. Manoharan, former DMK Finance Minister, expelled from the party.
5/26/1998Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.
11/18/1999Three Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, including its Chief Commander, are killed in a fierce encounter with Special Operations Group (SOG) in Jammu and Kashmir.
12/1/1993Nirubhai Desai, freedom fighter, veteran journalist and socialist, passed away.