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Historical Event on 4/2/1870

Poona Sarvajanik Sabha was found. 95 members from different parts of Maharashtra assembled in Pune during its founding.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/21/1857Bahadurshah Jafar - II surrendered against the British troops.
12/19/1994K. A. P. Vishwanathan, famous Tamil author, passed away.
12/10/1990The communal disturbances between Hindus and Muslims in Hyderabad claim more than 100 lives, and violence spreads to Aligarh and Kanpur also.
12/23/1930The British governor of Punjab was wounded in an assassination attempt.
3/11/1975Battle between Marathas and Nizam at Kharda.
9/25/1946Bishan Singh Bedi, a former Indian cricketer was born.
9/16/1913Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
6/2/1991Dinesh Goswami, former Law Minister, passed away in a road accident in Assam.
2/24/1995Rishang Keishing (Cong-I) sworn in as the 15th CM of Manipur.
2/18/1993Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"".