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Historical Event on 2/2/1977

Jagjivan Ram, Cabinet member of 30 years, resigns to protest emergency rule causing minor split in Congress party.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/20/1992Satyajit Ray, veteran film producer and director, was presented the 'Bharat Ratna' Award at Calcutta.
4/26/1992Medha Patkar arrested in Gujarat as the third Annual Goldman Environmental Prize of $ 60000 is awarded to her.
10/26/1814British General Governor declared war against Nepal.
1/27/1931Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign.
12/11/1991The centre notifies the interim order of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal directing Karnataka to release 205 tmc ft of water to Tamil Nadu.
12/11/1991Bahadur Shah captured the fort of Chittor and then marched against the Mughal emperor.
3/2/1984Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu.
9/1/1798England signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India.
6/13/1879Ganesh Damodar (Babarao) Savarkar, revolutionary, was born.
8/22/1933Inhabitants of Partabgarh face starvation as Opium was now outlawed. They had been living from the sale of opium for the past 800 years.