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Historical Event on 2/1/1942

17 Indian Division's were withdrawn over vast stretches and the British evacuation in Burma was the longest in British military history. The Division was to subsequently extract terrible retribution from the Japanese Army during World War II and to destabilise the Indian Economy with forged notes of 5, 10 and 100 Rupees.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/25/1997Kocheril Raman Narayanan (K. R. Narayanan) became the 10th President of India.
4/14/1990Over 90 persons killed in an Airbus crash in Bangalore.
4/14/1990Mahmud Gawan was appointed as Prime Minister, an office which he held till his execution.
12/17/1972New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan.
3/22/1947India's Last Viceroy Lord Louise Mountbatten came to India.
12/23/1998Jayaprakash Narayan posthumously awarded Bharat Ratna, the country's biggest honour.
2/9/1917Homi Talyarkhan, great politician, was born.
12/10/1996Supreme Court bans employment of child labour in hazardous industries.
12/31/1902Dr. Raghuvir, dictionary creator, having knowledge of Vedic Sanskrit, Tebiti, Chinese and Mongolian, was born.
11/16/1993Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender.