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Historical Event on 5/5/1944
Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1975 | Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of India, declared a 20-point economic programme. |
| 12/5/1959 | K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away. |
| 1/4/1937 | R. Surendranath, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s), was born in Meerut. |
| 7/18/1987 | Arun Singh, union minister of state for defence, resigns from the cabinet. |
| 2/1/1969 | Pinaki Chatterji and George Albert Duke on a two-man rowing expedition to the Andamans set out from Calcutta. |
| 8/29/1998 | Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi. |
| 3/15/1920 | Ranganandhan Francis, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56), was born. |
| 4/26/1920 | Srinivas Ramanujam, famous Indian mathematician, passed away at Chetpet in Madras. |
| 11/3/1961 | Gold Bond scheme was started to boost Indian economy after Indo-China war. |
| 8/22/1993 | The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu. |
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