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On This Day

2 May

🇮🇳 In India
1921 Satyajit Ray, filmmaker, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer, was born.
🌎 Elsewhere
1519 Artist Leonardo da Vinci died at the Chateau du Clos-Luce, France, where he had lived since 1516.
1859 Jerome K Jerome, English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat, was born.
1932 Pulitzer prize was awarded to Pearl S Buck for The Good Earth.
1949 Arthur Miller won Pulitzer Prize for Death of a Salesman.
1986 The City of Chernobyl was evacuated six days after the disaster.


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