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Historical Event on 8/2/1970

Smt. Chonira Beliappa Muthamma, India's first woman ambassador, was deputed at Hungary.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/29/1992The expert committee recomends an autonomous council for the Jharkhand region of Bihar.
4/16/2000India wins the second leg of the pre-olympic hockey tournament at Perth.
8/19/1757The first rupee coin was minted in Calcutta by the East India Company.
4/17/1923Lindsay Anderson, director (Thursday's Children), was born in Bangalore, India.
12/19/1945Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan.
11/19/1978Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for second time.
11/19/1978Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
11/28/1993JRD Tata, 89, passed away in Geneva.
6/14/1905Smt. Hirabai Barodekar, famous veteran Maharashtrian classical singer, was born.
7/6/1917Bhandarkar Prachyavidya Sanshodhak Mandir' was established.