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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
| 05/02/1769 |
Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born. |
| 05/02/1907 |
Riots break out in Rawalpindi and East Bengal, spreading to the Punjab. |
| 05/02/1908 |
Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot. |
| 05/02/1921 |
Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''. |
| 05/02/1922 |
Kedarnath Modi, great Industrialist in Maharashtra, was born. |
| 05/02/1926 |
Hindu women gain right to seek elected office. |
| 05/02/1930 |
Riots break out in Amritsar. |
| 05/02/1953 |
Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war. |
| 05/02/1953 |
40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
| 05/02/1954 |
Ceylon Asian conference ends with plea for peace in Indo-China, end of atomic tests and condemnation of colonialism. |
| 05/02/1968 |
Lok Sabha passed the Public Providend Fund Act. |
| 05/02/1974 |
700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi. |
| 05/02/1977 |
C.V. Narasimhan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 25/11/77). |
| 05/02/1981 |
Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the architect of modern Himachal Pradesh and an energetic Chief Minister, passed away. |
| 05/02/1982 |
Mohun Bagan retains Federation Cup (football) beating Mafatlal at Calicut. |
| 05/02/1985 |
Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away. |
| 05/02/1992 |
President J.B.Patnaik, former Orissa CM and PCC (I), arrested on corruption charges. |
| 05/02/1996 |
Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983. |
| 05/02/1996 |
General Election 2nd phase begins in 204 LS and 223 Assembly constituencies spread over 17 States & union territories. |
| 05/02/1998 |
The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 03/30/1996 | Congress I splits in Tamil Nadu. Group led by G.K. Moopanar makes alliance with DMK. |
| 10/10/1991 | Anantrao Laxmanrao Kulmarni, editor of monthly magzine 'Sajjangad' and weekly 'Samarth', died. |
| 05/20/1972 | Indira Gandhi laid the foundation stone of 2nd Howrah bridge at Calcutta. |
| 12/23/1977 | Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born. |
| 09/01/1999 | Mr. Justice Arijit Pasayat, appointed Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court. |
| 04/23/1930 | Riots break out in Peshawar; 20 Indians shot down after killing of three Britishers. |
| 09/04/1862 | Kaminikumar Chanda, social reformer and politician, was born. |
| 08/01/1996 | T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998. |
| 04/14/1914 | Takli Shivshankar, famous Malyalam novelist and short story writer, was born. |
| 09/11/1921 | Subramania Bharati, freedom fighter, Tamil poet and editor, passed away at an early age of 39. |
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