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On This Day

2 June

🇮🇳 In India
1898 Dr. Paul-Louis Simond discovered the connections between rats, fleas and humans in the transmittance of the Plague in Bombay (now Mumbai).
1970 Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American chemist at the University of Wisconsin, announced the synthesis of the first artificial gene.
2004 Dom Moraes, editor, essayist, biographer, and inveterate traveler who was one of the best-known English-language poets of India, died in Mumbai.
2014 Telangana was officially became the 29th state of India, formed by separating 10 districts from the north-western part of Andhra Pradesh.
🌎 Elsewhere
1840 English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, who set much of his work in Wessex, an imaginary county in southwestern England, was born.
1847 Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March was used at a wedding for the first time.
1910
A Pygmy
A Pygmy
Pygmies were discovered in Dutch New Guinea (Papua).
1999 The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brought television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
⭐ Significance
Telangana Formation Day is observed on 2 June as it was on this day in 2014 that the state of Telangana was formed.


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