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Historical Event on 2/2/1989

France's highest civilian award, 'Legion d' Honour, conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President Mitterrand at Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/1/1915Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born.
8/16/1997Bodo extremists kill 13 villagers in Nalbari district in Assam.
8/20/1909Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar.
10/31/1999The Ram Janmabhoomi Trust president ends fast in support of his eight-point demands including improvement of 'puja' and 'darshan' arrangements of 'Ram Lala' at the temple.
11/18/1955Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi.
12/12/1921Gandhi organizes a complete boycott of Prince of Wales's visit to Allahabad.
3/16/1945Ganesh Damodar Savarkar, who was a revolutionary and brother of Swatantriya Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, passed away.
9/14/1965Pakistan Air Force bombs Calcutta and Agartala civilian airports.
5/5/1929Curfew was imposed in a bid to quell Hindu-Muslim riots that had claimed 21 lives in Bombay.
8/13/1954Nehru says dispute over Portuguese colonies in India must be settled peacefully.