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2 February
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1814 The Indian Museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, also referred to as the Imperial Museum at Calcutta in colonial-era texts, was established. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest and largest museum in India.
- 1835 British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay presented his "Minute on Indian Education" that sought to establish the need to impart English education to Indian natives.
- 1887 Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, activist and politician, was born in Lucknow. Following her long-lasting association with the Indian independence movement, she was appointed the first Health Minister of India in 1947 and remained in office until 1957.
- 1915 Khushwant Singh, author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician, was born. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956, which became his most well-known novel.
- 1982 Geet Sethi becomes the youngest Indian to win the National Billiards' crown at Madras.
- 1989 France's highest civilian award, Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur), conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President Mitterrand at Calcutta.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1709 Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, was rescued after four years alone on an island off the coast of Chile.
- 1922 Irish novelist and poet James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses was published.
- 1970 Bertrand Russell, British polymath and academic who worked in philosophy, mathematics and logic, died.
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