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Historical Event on 9/2/1998

Nishant, the pilotless training aircraft developed by DRDO, is successfully flown from Chandipore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/21/1971Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown.
12/20/1920Justice Ali Sayyed Murtuza Fazal  was born.
3/2/1996Tendulkar scores 137 for India vs Sri Lanka in Cricket World Cup, but India still lose the match.
8/23/1994Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan possessed a nuclear bomb and warned that an attack by India could start a nuclear war in Pakistan.
4/17/1990Dinkar Gangadhar Kelkar, famous Director of Raja Kelkar Museum, passed away.
12/28/1931The second round of a British-Indian conference on the political future of India collapsed in disagreement over demands by Indian nationalists for complete independence. The British government had seemed willing to grant a limited dominion status. But Mahatma Gandhi, who had come to the conference to present the demands of the All-India Nationalist Congress, refused to accept anything less than complete independence. The breakdown of the talks set off a new round of disorders, Gandhi was greeted by rioting in the streets of Bombay between upper-caste Hindu members of the Congress party and ""untouchable"" caste members who had turned against him.
4/30/1958Shiekh Abdulla taken into custody.
4/4/1984Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian Astronaut to go in space from Baikanaur aboard Soviet Space Craft 'Soyuz 11' and revolved around the earth.
7/1/1930Vinodkumar C. Gupta, leader in Maharashtra, was born.
7/24/1992Universal Poetry Foundation' was established at Pune.