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Historical Event on 6/5/1995

A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1971Air India's first Jumbo Jet Plane passenger Boeing 747 named 'Emperor Samrat Ashok' was landed on Santacruz Airport at Bombay.
1/5/1990Mohammad Azharuddin was made captain of Indian cricket team.
11/19/1838Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj.
12/15/1976Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit
1/11/1991Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (1896-1995).
11/12/1969Indira Gandhi, who was expelled from Congress for indiscipline during President elections, made a large split and formed her own Congress Party with Jagjivan Ram as President. The party is recognised as Congress (I).
6/21/1941Chakravorty Rajgopalachari became the First Indian Governor General of India.
7/1/1913Kumarmanglam Parasshiv Prabhakar, former Chief of Indian Army, was born.
1/28/2000Indian junior cricket team wins the Youth cricket World Cup.
5/27/1992M. L. Manchanda, AIR's Patiala engineer who was kidnapped by Babbar Khalsa militants, was found executed.