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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
1/27/1974President V. V. Giri inaugurated the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Museum and it was opened for public at Teen Murti House, New Delhi.
1/1/1934Raju V. Vikram, cricket test umpire for 2 tests from 1984-87, was born at Karnataka.
3/22/1963World Bank loans India $ 67 mil. to improve its railways.
6/2/1953Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m.
3/27/1990A 10-member Progressive Democratic Front Ministry led by Churchill Alemao sworn in Goa.
2/28/1712Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession.
8/28/1994Three medical officers of the Field Ambulance unit were killed when the Indian contingent was trying to stem the war in Somalia.
2/18/1983Violence between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Singhalese in Sri Lanka marks beginning of Tamil rebellion by Tiger freedom fighters demanding an independent nation called Eelam. Prolonged civil war results.
2/19/1992An all-time low turn out of about 30\% registered in the Punjab Assembly polls.
3/13/1991President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha.