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Historical Event on 1/2/1994

Landslide win for GNLF in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council elections.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/25/1915Mahatma Gandhi established Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad.
2/22/1997Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore.
3/22/1977Janata and its allies gain absolute majority in Lok Sabha.
7/16/1997V. S. Rama Devi, Secretary-General of Rajya Sabha, appointed Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
10/9/1942Bibi Amar Kaur, freedom fighter, successfully hoisted the national flag at Jail Gate of Lahore. She was then arrested and send to Ambala Jail.
7/16/1909Aruna Asaf Ali, social worker and freedom fighter, was born at Kalka in Haryana.
12/17/1715Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army.
10/30/1928Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai.
2/3/1992Kapil Dev becomes the second highest wicket-taker in Test Cricket when he took his 400th wicket, that of Mark Taylor, in the Perth Test (New Zealand's Richard Hadlee with 431 wickets being the first).
10/9/199627-member ministry of National Conference headed by its president Dr. Farooq Abdullah sworn-in in J&K.