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Historical Event on 11/5/1977
Indira Gandhi arrested and released unconditionally. The External Affairs Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addresses the United Nations General Assembly in Hindi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/13/1929 | Jatindranath Das started fast strike. |
| 6/24/1986 | Government announced that unmarried mothers under its employment would also get maternity leave. |
| 5/27/1930 | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was arrested during Salt Movement. |
| 5/28/1963 | Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India). |
| 6/22/1898 | The last total Solar Eclipse of 19th century was seen in India. |
| 6/15/1988 | Dalai Lama recoganised the rights of China in foreign affairs and Army Operations in Tibet region. |
| 9/10/1920 | Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao was born at Hadagali in Karnataka. In 1945 he put forward the ""theory of estimation"" in statistics. His formulae and therorems, for instance the ""Cramer-Rao inequality"", ""The Fisher-Rao theorem"" and ""Rao-Black Wellistaion"" are now part of any standard textbook of statistics. For his significant contributions, Rao received the S. S. Bhatnagar Award, the Meghnad Saha Medal and the Guy medal. |
| 11/1/1954 | French handed over their territories of Pondicherry, Mahe, Karikal and Yanon to the Government of India. |
| 10/10/1896 | Jananayak Debeswar Sarmah, freedom fighter, architect and nationalist, was born at Jorhat, Assam. |
| 3/19/2000 | Bill Clinton, US President, arrives to a warm welcome in India. This was the first presidential visit of a US head in two decades. |
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