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Historical Event on 2/3/1992
Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/4/1906 | Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
| 10/19/1888 | Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem. |
| 11/22/1968 | Lok Sabha passed notification to change the name of Madras state as Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/1/1933 | Indian Air Force was established at Drigh Road in Karachi (now in Pakistan). Subroto Mukherjee and four other officers were inducted as pilots when the first Indian Air Force Squadron was formed. The first aircraft flight joined the Indian Air Force, at that time it possessed a strength of six RAF-trained officers and 19 Havai Sepoys (literally, air soldiers); its aircraft inventory comprised four Westland Wapiti II. A army co-operation biplaned at Drigh Road as the ""A"" Flight nucleus of the planned No.1 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. |
| 6/20/1992 | The JD and the NF choose former Lok Sabha Dy Speaker Prof. G. G. Swell as the Presidential candidate. |
| 11/11/1996 | A.P. cyclone toll may cross 2,500. |
| 7/31/1993 | Zafar Saifullah was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-07-1994. |
| 9/29/1932 | Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born. |
| 5/23/1998 | L. K. Advani, Home Minister, is to look after J&K affairs. |
| 9/2/1946 | Jawaharlal Nehru, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Undivided india, against Partition. |
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