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Historical Event on 6/5/1998
Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu writer, is presented the Jnanpeeth award for 1997.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
6/23/1993 | RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%. |
9/20/1944 | Rameshchandra Saxena, a one Test batsman (India vs England 1967), was born in Delhi. |
10/24/2000 | Sitaram Kesri (81), former Congress President, died at the AIIMS in New Delhi. |
1/5/1952 | U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for economic development in New Delhi. |
6/2/1955 | A British party scales the third highest peak Mt. Kanchenjunga, highest unclimbed peak. |
9/17/1956 | Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established. |
1/19/1976 | C. V. Bawdekar, famous journalist, died. |
1/21/1994 | India and Myanmar decide to open border trade. |
5/22/1991 | Shripad Amrit Dange, veteran communist leader, passed away. |
9/11/2000 | A Delhi High Court exonerates senior Congress(I) leader and former Union Minister H.K.L. Bhagat in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case in Delhi (in Mansarovar Park in East Delhi on November 1, 1984). |
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