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Historical Event on 1/5/1974

Virendranath Dasgupta, great revolutionary, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
6/10/1966MIG aeroplanes were designed at Nashik.
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).
5/31/1973Mohan Kumaramangalam, Central Minister, died in an air crash near Delhi.
6/3/1995President's rule in J&K extended for another 6 months.
8/17/1882Sir Ram Nath Chopra, noted professor of Pharmacology, was born.
3/13/1992Indumati Ramkrishna Shevde, famous writer, critic and painter, passed away.
2/20/1987Lok Dal splits over leadership issue.
5/28/1930Bhagwaticharan Vohra, great revolutionary freedom fighter, died near the banks of Ravi river during a bomb testing.
12/17/1905Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah, Chief Justice and Supreme Court of India, was born.