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Historical Event on 2/5/1991

The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/30/1887Sukumar Roy, famous Bengali children's litterateur, was born.
7/21/1891Jairamdas Doulatram, great leader, journalist and freedom fighter, was born at Karachi.
3/28/2000Delhi police arrest Shoaib Ilyasi, producer of the crime serial ''India's Most Wanted'' for the death of his wife Anju on January 10.
10/26/1947After the tribal column, raping and looting along the way by Pakistani Army continued at Baramulla, 50 kilometres from Srinagar. Maharaja of Jammu & Kashmir Hari Singhji, then, signed the instrument of accession with India and the Indian Armed Forces reacted to the Pakistani Army's infiltration. Great acts of personal gallantry and collective bravery were shown in the Kashmir operations. Major Som Nath Sharma was awarded the PVC, India's highest decoration for valour, and Brigadier Usman, commanding the 50th Parachute Brigade, was awarded the MVC. Both the soldiers were awarded posthumously.
1/10/1993India asks Pakistan to reduce its diplomatic strength by 40.
7/27/1947Princes were appealed to regard people's paramountcy as a privilege.
9/1/1930Suhasini Ganguly, freedom fighter, was arrested and send to Hijali Jail for her revolutionery activities. She later lived a low profiled life after release from prision.
9/18/2000President K. R. Narayanan presents the Dada Saheb Phalke award for the year 1999 to film maker Hrishikesh Mukherjee.
12/23/1902Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
1/10/1839Tea from India first arrives in UK.