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Historical Event on 2/2/1967
US President Johnson orders consignment of 2 mil. tons of food grains to be sent to India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/3/1954 | Atomic Energy Department established. |
| 12/17/1978 | Dhirendranath Ganguly, father of Bengali film industry, died. |
| 6/27/1967 | First Indian made AVRO aircraft passenger Plane HS748 handed over to Indian Airlines. |
| 3/18/1944 | Subhash Chandra Bose formed Azad Hind Fauz and took control of Kohima-Imphal. |
| 11/20/1999 | World sports award of the century given away in Vienna. The jury included IOC chief Samaranch, FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Prince Albert of Monaco and motor racing chief Max Mosley. Award winners were: contact sports Muhammad Ali, Soccer-Pele, athletics-Carl Lewis and Nadia Comaneci, water sport Dawn Fraser and Mark Spitz; motor sport Alain Prost, tennis-Steffi Graf, basketball-Michael Jordan, winter sports (skiing) Annemarie Moser-Proell and Jean-Claude Killy. |
| 5/4/1960 | Washington, Ike signs wheat pact with India for largest U.S. food sale. |
| 2/17/1991 | Krishnabai Mote, famous author and social worker, passed away. |
| 11/20/1955 | Kripal Singh scores 100* on Test debut, India v New Zealand. |
| 8/26/1997 | Employee Provident Fund scheme of 1952 amended to ensure that all PF claims are settled within 30 days from the date of receipt of claims by the PF Commissioner. |
| 6/5/1966 | Indian rupee devalued by 36.5 percent. |
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