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Historical Event on 2/7/1985

Uday Merchant, cricketer (brother of Vijay, prolific scorer), passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/23/1954Tito, Nehru reject plan for neutral third bloc, yet insist on peaceful co-existence.
1/29/1975West Indies won the fifth test against India after winning the exciting cricket series 3-2.
1/28/1950Supreme Court of India was inaugurated.
9/10/1918Muslim riots break out in Calcutta.
12/25/1879Sadhu T.L. Vaswani (1879-1966), altruistic Sindhi poet and servant of God, who found several Hindu missions in India and seven Mira Educational Institutions in his lifetime, was born.
5/6/1971India refutes allegations that it has meddled in Pakistan's civil war.
5/15/1995PM Rao reaches New York for a week-long visit.
1/4/1907Govind Rai, renowned Gujarati novelist and writer of 'Saraswati Chandra', passed away.
11/20/1981Bhaskara-II, India's second experimental remote sensing satellite, was launched by Russian launch vehicle Intercosmos. This provided experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite system on an end-to-end basis.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.