2 September - India on this day17 events

Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.

Vinayak Mishra, famous Oriya litterateur, critic and historian, was born.

Chamaklal Dahyabhai Vyas, great poet, was born at Gujarat, Vyara.

Datta Deshmukh, water expert and President of `Lalnishan Party', was born.

Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, famous marathi story writer, novelist and Gyanpeeth Awardee, passed away.

Gandhiji is mobbed in Calcutta house; gives up idea of Noakhali visit. Peace efforts intensified.

President V. V. Giri inaugurated, Vivekanand Rock Memorial' at Kanyakumari.

Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi.

Nishant, the pilotless training aircraft developed by DRDO, is successfully flown from Chandipore.

Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India).

Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand beats Garry Kasparov in Rapid Chess tournament in Geneva.

Akbar won the war near Ahmedabad and captured Gujrat.

Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away.

Dr. Shankar Purushottam Adharkar, famous Botanist in India, passed away.

Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away.

Jawaharlal Nehru, was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the Interim Government of Undivided india, against Partition.