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Historical Event on 8/2/1980

Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/13/1713Sultan Jahandar Shah was strangled to death. Farrukhsiyar captured the throne of Delhi from Jahandar Shah with the assistance of two Sayyid brothers.
8/1/1882Purushottamdas Tandon, great leader and editor, was born at Allahabad (U.P.).
8/20/1933Mahatma Gandhi is rushed to the hospital on the fourth day of his latest fast.
3/30/1997Congress Party withdraws support to the 10-month old H. D. Deve Gowda Government at the centre, and stakes its claim to form an alternative government.
8/2/198432 people died in a bomb explosion at Meenambakkam Airport.
1/25/1989Motilal Vora sworn in as CM of Madhya Pradesh.
4/14/1993The Cabinet Committee approves delicensing of car, refrigerator and leather goods industries.
4/15/1980Six more private sector banks nationalized.
2/10/1986Pope John Paul II ends visit to India.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.