In the year 2011, on the same day i.e., on April 2, India won world cup after the 28 years of ‘drought’. India defeated Sri Lanka for the second time in the world cup. At the same time, the Indian team became the third such team after the West Indies and Australia, which managed to capture the title for more than 2 times. Here is the list of other important events recorded on this date.
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- 1679: Mughal emperor Aurangzeb imposed his Jijiya tax again on the Hindus of his Sultanate. This tax was abolished by Akbar.
- 1902: First Motion Picture Theater Open in Los Angeles.
- 1902: The Birth of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, the master of Indian classical music
- 1933: Ranjit Singh, the father of Indian cricket, dies.
- 1912: Titanic begins maritime test
- 1970: Under the Assam Reorganization Act, Meghalaya in the northeast of India, got the status of an autonomous state. This state was formed by combining joint Garo and Jayantia and Khasi Hills in two districts of Assam.
- 1982: Argentina attacks the Falkland Islands located in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
- 1986: A bomb blows in the middle of air in a Boeing airplane of the American aviation company. Four passengers fell from the plane by air pressure. The pilot landed the airplane safely.
- 1997: Sumita Sinha made a record when a truck weighing 3200 kg passed over her.
- 2005: Pope John Paul II, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City, passed away.
- 2011: India repeats the glorious victory of the World Cup in 1983 and won the World Cup for the second time
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