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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.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/10/1909 | Bellari Shammanna Keshvan, internationally famous librarian, was born. |
| 6/2/1965 | The second of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India). |
| 11/1/1985 | Helicopter Corporation of India, later renamed Pawan Hans Limited, started functioning. |
| 10/24/1954 | Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died. |
| 4/6/1606 | Khusru Prince and his father Jahangir rebelled and fled from Agra. |
| 9/29/1993 | National Human Rights Commission set up. |
| 6/2/1975 | Devendra Mohan Bose, famous Scientist of Physics, passed away. |
| 6/2/1975 | Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district. |
| 7/30/1883 | Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 1/11/1999 | Four DRDO scientists and four pilots aboard an Avro plane on a research test flight are killed as the plane crashes after take-off from the Arakkonam INS Rajali Naval air base in Tamil Nadu. |
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