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Historical Event on 5/2/1769
Sir John Malcom, former Governor of Mumbai and historian, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/11/1913 | Iron ropes bridge known as 'Laxman Jhula' was constructed over Ganga at Hrishikesh |
| 3/18/1972 | First Indian Book Fair was organised by National Book Trust in New Delhi. |
| 11/2/1950 | India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet. |
| 10/30/1887 | Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born. |
| 12/28/1688 | Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolishes all temples (around 1,000) in Mathura. (During their reign, Muslim rulers had destroyed roughly 60,000 Hindu temples throughout India, constructing mosques on 3,000 sites). |
| 2/20/1997 | RBI relaxes capital adequacy norms for commercial banks. |
| 3/8/2000 | The Gujarat Government withdraws its January 3 notification, thus reimposing the ban on its employees from participating in RSS activities. |
| 9/29/1932 | Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born. |
| 12/24/1762 | Gopalrao defeated in the battle of Jamkhindi. |
| 9/12/1905 | Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London. |
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