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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India

Date	Event Name
05/01/1867	Sri Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu, great freedom fighter, journalist, nationalist, politician, pioneer in library movement and litterateur, was born at Elakurru village in Gudivada Taluk, District Krishna.
05/01/1879	Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission.
05/01/1886	May Day was first observed in Chicago, USA. Work, Social activities, Rest, for 8 Hours.
05/01/1897	Vivekananda Swami established Ramakrishna Mission.
05/01/1902	Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives.
05/01/1908	Praful Chaki committed suicide after he threw a bomb on Judge Kingsford of Mujaffarpur, killing two inocent women.
05/01/1909	Madame Bhikaji Cama secretly left London and went to France where she was wrote and spoke about the cruelty of Britishers.
05/01/1913	Balraj Sahani, famous film actor, was born.
05/01/1915	Rameshwar Shukla 'Anchal', modern Hindi poet, novelist and essay writer, was born.
05/01/1922	Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra.
05/01/1923	Under the leadership of Singaravelu Chettiar, the first May day was celebrated in India.
05/01/1926	Jim Corbett killed the notorious man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag at Gulabrai village, who had attacked and killed about 125 people.
05/01/1927	Dr. Namwar Singh was born.
05/01/1940	Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published.
05/01/1946	Joanna Lumley, actress (Abs Fab, OHM's Secret Service), was born in Kashmir, India.
05/01/1947	Congress Working Committee accepts Partition in principle.
05/01/1948	Baroda State merged into Bombay Province.
05/01/1958	Bell, 47 G3, the flight was upgraded to a helicopter unit with a Sqn Ldr as its Commanding Officer.
05/01/1960	Old Bombay province was divided between Maharashtra and Gujrat States.
05/01/1964	Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh.
05/01/1966	Marathi becomes the official language of Maharashtra.
05/01/1972	All fuel coal mines were nationalised.
05/01/1973	All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised.
05/01/1977	Janata Party was established.
05/01/1981	Sindhudurga district was formed in Maharashtra State.
05/01/1983	Amravati University established.
05/01/1983	V. N. Swamy, pace bowler without distinction in one Test for India, passed away.
05/01/1987	The Bofors Deal.
05/01/1992	Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.
05/01/1992	C. Arjun, famous music director, passed away.
05/01/1993	Narayan Ganesh Goray, socialist stalwart, 86, passed away in Pune.
05/01/1994	Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established.
05/01/1994	Six leading Akali factions dissolved to form a new party, the Shiromani Akali Dal-Amritsar, which wanted a 'Sikh State'.
05/01/1995	60 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet.
05/01/1995	SAARC endorses South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) and establishes a South Asian Development Fund (SADF) for the economic and technical development of the subcontinent.
05/01/1996	Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court.
05/01/1996	International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
05/01/1996	P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala Governor, resigns in view of the ongoing CBI investigation against him in the hawala case.
05/01/1996	Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case).
05/01/1997	Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.
05/01/1997	Anand wins all three categories in Amber chess tournament in Monte Carlo.
05/01/1998	The Konkan Railway running for 760-km is dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. This was an extention from Ratnagiri.
05/01/1998	India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.
05/01/1999	India retained the SAFF Coca-Cola football title in Margao, beating Bangladesh in the final.
05/01/2000	Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
02/12/1985	Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people.
08/21/1972	A law was passed for protecting wild animals, including lions and tigers, from extinction.
07/04/1999	Over 500 children of Kargil migrants take out a procession to Batalik in a show of solidarity with the Indian army.
02/15/1869	Mirza ""Galib"" Asad Ullah Beg Khan, famous Urdu poet and writer, passed away.
08/19/1976	Nagarjun Sagar University established in Andhra Pradesh.
11/20/1955	Kripal Singh scores 100* on Test debut, India v New Zealand.
03/31/1942	During the 2nd World War, Japan was heavily successful in Burma and Andaman which posted a danger to the Indian Security.
10/10/1957	Jagdeep', a children's film, won the first prize at the Ninth International Exhibition of Films for Children at Venice.
08/17/1944	Indian Viceroy Viscount Wavell rejects Gandhi's request to discuss war support in return for Indian independence.
10/22/1947	There were bound to be difficulties in consolidating the loosely federated Indian provinces, princely states, etc. into one homogeneous whole state. Kashmir, after initial dithering, acceded to India voluntarily and by popular consent, then, was invaded by Pakistani tribesmen with the support of the Pakistani government.

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