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Historical Event on 2/7/1997
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena supremo, found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to simple imprisonment of one week and a fine of Rs. 2000 by Nagpur bench of Mumbai HC for his statement that ''a judge had demanded a bribe of Rs. 35 lakhs for favouring a litigant''.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/14/1901 | Gandhiji reaches Rajkot via Porbunder. |
| 2/25/1920 | Balraj Madhok was born. |
| 5/23/1993 | PM arrives in Tashkent. |
| 10/24/1938 | Farooq Rehmany Mohammad, journalist, social reformer and political worker, was born at Bandipur. |
| 9/11/1950 | Sorabjee Harmasji Colah, cricketer (69 runs in India's first 2 tests 1932-33), passed away. |
| 4/2/1980 | Raj Narain expelled from Lok Dal forms Janata (S) Party. |
| 8/18/1985 | Assam Assembly dissolved (18). |
| 1/15/1998 | Gulzari Lal Nanda, Gandhian freedom fighter and twice acting Prime Minister in 1964 and 1966, died in Ahmedabad at the age of 100 years. |
| 7/23/1990 | Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Indian Prime Minister and Gorbachev sign joint declaration committing their countries to building a nuclear-free and non-violent world in the first Indian-Soviet summit in the post-Gorbachev Soviet Union in Moscow. |
| 10/2/1954 | Chandernagar, former under French possession, was made a part of West Bengal. |
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