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Historical Event on 7/5/1957
Dr. Anugrah Narain Singh, great leader, freedom fighter, educationist and Minister of India, died..
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/30/1991 | Dr. P. J. Devras, friend of snakes, passed away. |
| 11/29/1988 | Rajiv Gandhi, grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, resigned as Prime Minister of India, a country which had been ruled by his family for all but five of its 42 years of independence. The end of the dynasty came after elections that were both violent and inconclusive, neither Gandhi's Congress party nor the opposition National Front received a clear majority, although the latter had a few more votes. The only real winner was the fundamentalist Hindu party, Bharatiya Janata, which is now the power broker. If the National Front wants to rule, its leader V.P. Singh needs the religious group's support. |
| 12/17/1715 | Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army. |
| 8/29/1959 | India sends troops to Tibet border to block the Chinese. |
| 2/24/1950 | G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born. |
| 7/26/1994 | Government rejects JPC report on securities scandal. |
| 4/6/1956 | Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1976-92),was born in Rajapur, Maharashtra. He has received Arjun Award (1981) and Padmashree (1987). |
| 10/20/1919 | Chaitanyabala Divatia, great author, was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. |
| 1/11/1975 | Oil struck in third Bombay High rig. |
| 6/7/1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R. |
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