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Historical Event on 5/1/1987

The Bofors Deal.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/2/1953Government set up a Board of Editors under Dr. Syed Mahmood to prepare a history of Freedom Movement in India.
4/27/1705Aurangzeb captured the Fort of Vagingera.
2/7/1983Eastern News Agency was established in Calcutta .
10/24/2000Hyrunnisa, suspected to be the key accused in the Kollam liquor tragedy, nabbed along with her husband and a worker in her shop in Guruvayur.
7/25/1995India reaps a record harvest of food grain of 189.77 million tonnes ('94, 95).
10/22/1937Gandhiji presided over the educational conference at Wardha and outlined his scheme of education through basic crafts.
12/11/1958Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship.
1/15/1934Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed.
9/13/1984Swami Brahmanand died. He established Brahmanand Inter College (1938), Brahmanand Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya (1943) and Brahmanand Mahavidyalaya (1960). He joined the freedom movement and participated in Salt Satyagraha, Non Cooperation Movement and Quit India Movement.
5/26/1998Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati, economist, was awarded the 1998 Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidmeiny Foundation.