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Historical Event on 5/5/1971

India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/1/1959National Aeronautical Research Laboratory (NARL) set up under CSIR with temporary offices in New Delhi. Dr. P. Nilakantan is appointed NARL's first Director.
5/4/1959Nehru rejects proposals that India and Pakistan resolve their differences and set up a common alliance against Communist China.
9/3/1983U.S. Census reports world population at 4.72 billion. China has 1.05 billion and India 731 million.
8/3/1898Udayshankar Bhatt, modern Hindi dramatist, poet and novelist, was born.
8/3/1898Portuguese Catholics conquer Goa under Albuquerque, the then Governor, to serve as capital of their Asian maritime empire beginning conquest and exploitation of India by Europeans.
7/19/1994The Tamil Nadu Bill for continuance of the 69\% reservation policy in the state receives the President's assent.
11/15/1988Dalai Lama agreed for less then independent country to save the cultural heritage of Tibet.
4/27/1907Fearing uprising in Punjab, British arm volunteers.
3/15/1992Dr. Rahi Masum Raza, film screenplay, story and dialogue writer, passed away at the age of 64 years.
1/15/1958Tamil becomes the official language of Madras.