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Historical Event on 8/2/1987

Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/1/1998Tatas withdraw their Rs. 1,475-crore proposal to operate an airline with foreign equity participation in the domestic sector.
9/1/1998Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder of Portuguese power in India, died at the age of 73 years.
3/31/1997Forex reserves touch a record $ 22.36 billions.
1/1/1985Doordarshan starts Malayalam telecast from Trivandrum.
8/26/2000Vijay Kumar wins the Hindu Open Golf championship at the Cosmopolitan Club in Chennai.
3/24/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India.
6/1/1997Union Minister for Forests and Environment, Prof. Saifuddin Soz announces Rs. 9 crore central package for afforestation and eco-development in J&K.
9/29/1914Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries.
6/22/1994L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died.
6/22/1994The first visit of Jesuit Priest of Goa in the Court of Emperor Akbar at Fatehpur Sikri.