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Historical Event on 8/2/1987

Vishwanathan Anand becomes the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess championship.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/1996India wins India-Pakistan World Cup Quater Final cricket match in Bangalore (Wills World Cup). This was the last international match played by Javed Miandad.
11/22/1872Meera Behn (Medlin Slade), freedom fighter, was born at England.
5/30/1991Uma Shankar Dixit (90) passed away.
11/15/1998Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.
7/11/1924Moslem-Hindu rebellion in Delhi.
5/6/1944Mahatma Gandhi was released unconditionally from his last imprisonment from Aga Khan Palace at Pune.
10/16/1999Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99'
6/22/1993JPC draft report raps B. Shankaranand and censures Manmohan Singh.
2/9/1942Chiang Kai-Shek meets Sir Stafford Cripps, British Viceroy in India.
3/23/1913Indian Muslim Conference passes resolution demanding immediate self-government.