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Historical Event on 1/2/1960

Raman Lamba, cricketer (Indian opening batsman 1986-87), was born in Meerut.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/27/1930India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
9/11/1950Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's first 2 tests 1932-33), passed away.
9/11/1950Sikandar Sur was compelled to surrender Mankot in Punjab.
2/11/1981Australia all out for 83 vs India at MCG. They were chasing 143 to win.
6/19/1901Raj Chandra Bose, Indian mathematician and statistician, was born at Hosangabad in Madhya Pradesh. He made many valuable contributions to the subject. He discovered new codes for telecommunication. In 1976, America's highest honour to a scientist came to Bose as he was elected Fellow of the US Academy of Sciences.
4/26/1999India's Atanu Lahiri and Bhagyashree Thipsay won the men's and women's titles respectively in the Commonwealth chess championship in Bikaner.
10/6/1949Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of National Defence Academy in Kharakvasla near Pune.
1/15/1993PM asks for judicial probe into Bombay riots, sanctions Rs. 1 crore aid for victims.
1/3/1966Chetan Jagatram Manohar Sharma, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler, World Cup hat-trick 1987), was born in Ludhiana.
10/6/1893Meghnad N. Saha, astrophysicist, was born. In 1920, he developed the 'Thermal Ionization Equation', which has remained fundamental in all works on stellar atmospheres. This equation has been widely applied to the interpretation of stellar spectra, which are characteristic of the chemical composition of the light source.