2 SEP HISTORY TODAY

Today in Indian History
Events for September 2

2-September-1573	Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat.
2-September-1894	Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born.
2-September-1911	Chamaklal Dahyabhai Vyas, great poet, was born at Gujarat, Vyara.
2-September-1918	Datta Deshmukh, water expert and President of `Lalnishan Party', was born.
2-September-1946	Jawaharlal Nehru, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Undivided india, against Partition.
2-September-1946	Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.
2-September-1947	Gandhiji is mobbed in Calcutta house; gives up idea of Noakhali visit. Peace efforts intensified.
2-September-1956	Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).
2-September-1960	Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.
2-September-1970	Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi.
2-September-1970	President V. V. Giri inaugurated, Vivekanand Rock Memorial' at Kanyakumari.
2-September-1976	Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.
2-September-1984	Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.
2-September-1992	Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.
2-September-1992	Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away.
2-September-1993	Vice Admiral V.S. Shekhawat appointed new naval chief.
2-September-1996	Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva.
2-September-1998	Nishant, the pilotless training aircraft developed by DRDO, is successfully flown from Chandipore.