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Historical Event on 10/2/1942

Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.

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4/7/1929England's Imperial Airways had extended its flight to London-Karachi instead of London-Kahira. It was the first commercial air service in undivided India.
9/23/1858Grant Duf, historian who studied Maratha history, died.
6/15/1960Bardwan University was established in West Bengal.
2/10/1902Hemraj, politician, was born at Dera Gopipur, (H.P.).
12/10/1998Prof. Amartya Sen receives the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics.
9/15/1927Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena was born.
6/26/1995Madhya Pradesh declared ""Tiger State"" as it homes one sixth of the world's tiger population.
11/3/1988Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives.
1/29/1997Olympic Hockey captain Pargat Singh announces retirement.
1/29/1997Guru Ramdasji died. His son Arjun Dev succeeded him and changed the offerings to the Guru into a regular tax.