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Historical Event on 8/2/1942

Gandhi says that the Japanese might be welcomed in India should they invade due to current Indian discontent.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/29/1948Assembly bans discrimination against untouchables.
6/3/1844Balkrishna Bhatt, essay writer, critic and journalist in Hindi, was born.
2/20/1846Duleep Singh was recognised as the ruler. British captured Lahore.
5/25/1915Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.
12/22/1998The National Award for the Best Technological Invention is conferred on Prof. J. R. Isaac, a computer scientist.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).
6/22/1995India and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sign MOU enabling them to visit suspected militants and persons in detention centres only under humanitarian consideration.
4/11/1906K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu.
4/23/1913Dhananjay Vithal Keer, famous biogropher, was born.
10/29/1996Kamini' (Kalpakkam Mini), a 30 KW research reactor which uses man-made Uranium-233 as fuel and the only working reactor of its kind in the world, attains 'criticality'.