2nd January – What Happened Today In History? | On This Day

Today In History? 

Find out what happened on 2nd January in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred 2nd January

Sadashiv Amrapurkar is a popular actor who is well known for his performances in Marathi and Hindi films in the 1980s and 90s. He received the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Negative Role in 1991 for Sadak — the first time the award was instituted. In addition to negative roles, he has shone in supporting roles and, more recently, in comic roles.
Shanthi Krishna is an Indian dancer and film actress who is best known for her lead roles in Malayalam and Tamil films of the 1980s and early-90s. She has won the Kerala State Film Award in 1992 and 1994. She was born to R. Krishan and Sharada in Mumbai. She completed her education in Mumbai S.I.E.S College and General Education Academy.

• Raman Lamba  pronunciation (help·info) (2 January 1960 in Uttar Pradesh – 23 February 1998 in Dhaka) was an Indian cricketer who played in four Tests and 32 One Day Internationals, mainly as a batsman died in the Post Graduate Hospital in Dhaka in Bangladesh after three days of vain efforts by a team of doctors.Sathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan FRS (born 2 January 1940) is an Indian American mathematician who is known for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations.Suresh Vaswani (born 2 January 1960) is the Chairman of Dell India and as executive vice president, Dell Services, leading its Applications and Business Process Outsourcing organization and was the former Joint Chief Officer of Wipro’s IT Business and a Member of the Board of Wipro Limited.
  Chandrashekhara Kambara (Kannada: ಚಂದ್ರಶೇಖರ ಕಂಬಾರ) (born January 2, 1937) is a prominent poet, playwright, folklorist, film director in Kannada language and the founder-vice-chancellor of Kannada University in Hampi. He is known for his effective usage of North Karnataka dialect of Kannada language in his plays and poems and is often compared with D.R. Bendre.

  Death anniversaries on 2nd January:

  Safdar Hashmi (April 12, 1954 – January 2, 1989) was a Communist playwright, actor, director, lyricist, and theorist, chiefly associated with Street theatre in India, and is still considered an important voice in political theatre in India. He was a founding member of Jana Natya Manch (People’s Theatre Front; Janam for short) in 1973, which grew out of the Indian People’s Theatre Association.

• Harekrushna Mahatab (November 21, 1899 – January 2, 1987) was a leader of the Indian National Congress, a notable figure in the Indian independence movement and the Chief Minister of Orissa from 1946 to 1950 and again from 1956 to 1961. He was popularly known by the sobriquet Utkal Keshari. Harekrushna Mahtab was born at Agarpada village in Bhadrak district of Orissa.Philomina (1926 – 2 January 2006) was a veteran Malayalam film actress. She had acted in more than 750 films in her career. She played mostly character and comedy roles, besides that of grandmother and mother. She started acting on the stage. This experience stood her in good stead when she was offered her first film role.John Forbes Royle (1799 – 2 January 1858), British botanist and teacher of materia medica, was born in Kanpur (then Cawnpore) in 1799. Entering the service of the East India Company as assistant surgeon, he devoted himself to studying botany and geology, and made large collections among the Himalaya Mountains.
  

  Notable Events:

  1754 -> Robert Clive again attacked and annexed Calcutta from Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah.

  1899 -> Monks started living in Belur Math.
  1943 -> Vir Bhai Kotwal sacrificed his life.

   

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