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Historical Event on 2/2/1965

Government sanction was accorded to the Officers Training School for the start of Short Service Regular Commission.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/2/1926Hindu women gain right to seek elected office.
6/23/1958Tamil leaders in Madras call on Nehru to lobby for better treatment of Ceylon's Tamil minority.
4/1/1882Savings Bank Postal system was introduced.
9/5/1979Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.
10/5/1993Geet Sethi retained World Billiards title by beating Mike Russel.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).
5/8/1994Harikant Jethwani, famous Sindhi litterateur, passed away.
1/9/1889Dr. Vrindavanlal Varma, famous Hindi writer and social reformer, was born in Jhansi. He mainly wrote historical and social novels, most famouse being ""Mriganainee"".
10/1/1854Postal stamp introduced in India. These lithographed stamps were of denominations of half anna and one anna. These stamps bore the Head of Queen Victoria with India at top and value at bottom. The half anna stamp was printed between May 5 to July 29 and printing of one anna stamp commenced on July 26.
7/11/1953Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu was born in Mumbai (Mahatrahtra).