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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 05/05/1479 |
Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district. |
| 05/05/1818 |
Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany. |
| 05/05/1903 |
Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India. |
| 05/05/1903 |
Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu). |
| 05/05/1906 |
Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. |
| 05/05/1916 |
Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab. |
| 05/05/1929 |
Curfew was imposed in a bid to quell Hindu-Muslim riots that had claimed 21 lives in Bombay. |
| 05/05/1930 |
Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year. |
| 05/05/1932 |
Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away. |
| 05/05/1942 |
Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi. |
| 05/05/1944 |
Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue. |
| 05/05/1946 |
Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous. |
| 05/05/1947 |
Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable. |
| 05/05/1955 |
Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce. |
| 05/05/1966 |
Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa. |
| 05/05/1971 |
India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi. |
| 05/05/1972 |
Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away. |
| 05/05/1977 |
Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party. |
| 05/05/1983 |
Keshavrao Kothavle 'Lalit', editor of monthly magzine, passed away. |
| 05/05/1986 |
Controversial Muslim Women Bill passed by Lok Sabha. |
| 05/05/1989 |
Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away. |
| 05/05/1992 |
Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched. |
| 05/05/1993 |
Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], famous Indian guru, passed away at 73 yrs. |
| 05/05/1994 |
Revolt against Nar Bahadur Bhandari government in Sikkim, Sanchaman Limboo elected new leader. |
| 05/05/1998 |
Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case. |
| 05/05/2000 |
Supreme Court permits former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha (petitioner) to have herself and the others examined as ''defence witnesses'' in connection with the trial of the 'Colour TV scam case'. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 02/11/1993 | Naik sacks six ministers in Maharashtra. |
| 09/02/1946 | Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away. |
| 01/30/1911 | Gajananrao Joshi, famous violin player and singer of ""Gwalior Gharana"", was born. |
| 04/10/1996 | The marketing of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Moor's Last Sigh' in India was cleared by the Central govt. |
| 09/03/1997 | Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directs the state government to pay an ex-gratia of Rs. 50,000 to the family of a college student, who had committed suicide following ragging in the hostel. |
| 12/12/1925 | Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in 2 Tests for India 1959), was born in Surat, Gujarat. |
| 01/09/1915 | Gandhiji reached Bombay on his return from South Africa. He became a member of the Indian National Congress. He was awarded Kaiseri-e-Hind Gold Medal for Ambulance service on Jan, 11. |
| 10/22/1999 | Balayogi is elected as Speaker of the Lok Sabha for second consecutive term. |
| 01/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 07/03/1985 | Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1988. |
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