January 2 Today in Indian History
Historical Events
- 1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India
Historic Event
1913 Mahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal, South Africa

- 1947 Mahatma Gandhi begins march for peace in East Bengal
Sports History
1992 Australian cricket spin bowling great Shane Warne (145 Tests, 708 wickets; 194 ODIs) makes Test debut v India in 3rd Test at Sydney Cricket Ground

- 2014 30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India
- 2019 Two women become the first to ever enter India's Sabarimala shrine in Kerala State, after law change, prompting protests
Famous Birthdays
- 1910 Srirangam Srinivasarao [Sri Sri], Telugu Poet, born in Visakhapatnam, India (d. 1983)
- 1932 Harchand Singh Longowai [Sant Ji], Indian Sikh leader and President of the Akali Dal during the Punjab insurgency of the 1980s, British India (d. 1985) [1]
- 1940 S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician
- 1973 Chris Woodruff, American tennis player and coach (Indian Wells 1999 semi-finals; coach University of Tennessee), born in Knoxville, Tennessee
Famous Deaths
- 1948 Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet, dies at 69
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