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Historical Event on 8/2/1993

Seven JD (A) rebel MPs admitted to Congress (I).

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/6/1985P.T. Usha sets record for 400m (Women) in 51.61 seconds at Canberra .
11/8/1992Mother Teresa, nobel prize winner, was presented 'Bharat Ki Mahan Suputri' award.
1/10/1912Prodosh Kusum Das Gupta, great artist and professor, was born at Dacca, Bangladesh.
4/26/1995Indian Newspaper Society (INS) calls off stir plans following Government conceding a major demand of the newspaper industry by putting newsprint on the Open General Licence (OGL) and abolish the condition requiring newspapers to buy two tonnes of indigenous newsprint in order to import one tonne.
4/28/1943Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar.
12/6/1997Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts return to earth following a two-week science mission on an enquiry awaiting them because of botched satellite release. Columbia and its crew of six, including India-born Kalpana Chawla, swooped through a clear chilly sky and landed on runway at Kennedy Space Centre. Astronauts save runaway $10-million satellite by catching it with their hands.
11/13/1780Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ""Lion of Punjab"", was born.
4/2/1679Aurangzeb reimposed Jizya Tax to finance the spread of Islam on the Hindus.This Jeziya tax was abolished by Akbar.
1/11/1986The Naval Dockyard Bombay celebrates its 250th Anniversary.
3/29/1952India enters into a war with Japan.