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Historical Event on 5/2/1926

Hindu women gain right to seek elected office.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/17/1992Lok Sabha rejects no-trust motion.
11/28/1999Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir.
3/11/1984India's first modern boas `Jalusha' started from Vishakhapattanam.
7/2/1998India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement on promoting agricultural research in New Delhi.
2/16/1962General Election ( 3rd) of India begins.
9/8/1953Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir, was shot at.
6/29/199324 jawans were killed in ambush by NSCN militants in Manipur.
12/12/1908Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
10/16/1990Dr. Nelson Mandela, conferred with 'Bharat Ratna', the highest civilian honour.
7/3/1936Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling during Cambridge U vs MCC match.