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Learn about the importance of 2nd October in the history of India. Significant historical events, famous birthdays and death anniversaries on this day of October 2.
The Best thing to do today:
Visit: Raj Ghat (Delhi), and celebrate the Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Ji (Bapu, Father of Nation, India)
2nd October in the history of India
2022
- India defeated South Africa by 16 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the three-match series. This is the first time that India clinched a T20I series against South Africa at home. India also records the highest-ever total of 237/3 against South Africa.
- Team India batter Suryakumar Yadav has broken the world record for scoring 1,000 runs facing the least number of balls in T20I. Yadav reached 1,000 runs facing just 573 deliveries. He broke the previous world record of Glenn Maxwell of scoring 1000 runs facing 640 balls.
2019
- 2019 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Raj Ghat today in the morning and will be proceeding to the Sabarmati Ashram later this evening. PM Modi will declare the country open defecation-free (ODF) in the presence of over 20,000 village heads, on the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi today on the 2nd of October 2019.
- 2019 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a commemorative 150 coin on the occasion of the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
Famous Birthdays on October 2
- 1997 - Lovlina Borgohain is an Indian boxer. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in the women's welterweight event, becoming only the third Indian boxer to win a medal at the Olympics. She won a bronze medal at the 2018 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships and the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. Borgohain is the first female athlete and the second boxer from Assam to represent the state in the Olympics. In 2020, she became the sixth person from Assam to receive Arjuna Award.
- 1979 – Ashutosh Kaushik, an Indian actor
- 1948 – Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (died: 1998)
- 1942 - Asha Parekh is a veteran Indian actress, film director, and producer who appeared in many commercially successful films throughout her career. She was the highest-paid actress of her time and was one of the most successful actresses of the 1960s and 1970s.
- 1939 – Budhi Kundera, Indian cricketer (died: 2006)
- 1924 - Tapan Sinha, was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like Kabuliwala (1957), Louha-Kapat, Sagina Mahato (1970), Apanjan (1968), Kshudhita Pashan and children's film Safed Haathi (1978) and Aaj Ka Robinhood.
- 1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
- 1889 - Shishir Kumar Bhaduri or Sisir Kumar Bhaduri was a stage actor and theatre founder. A pioneer of modern Bengali theatre, where he was an actor, director, playwright and even scenic designer. After Girish Chandra Ghosh, he introduced realism and naturalism to the theatre.
- 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist, barrister and philosopher (died 1948)
- Swami Abhedananda, born Kaliprasad Chandra was a direct disciple of the 19th-century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of Ramakrishna Vedanta Math.
- 2022 - Rahul Koli, who played a character in the Gujarati movie 'Chhello Show' directed by Pan Nalin( the movie was India's Oscar entry for 2022), has died after a protracted battle with leukaemia. Koli was ten years old. Koli reportedly passed away on October 2 in an Ahmedabad hospital.
- 1975 - K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
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