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Historical Event on 5/5/1971

India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/3/1903Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born.
8/4/2000Pranab Mukherjee and S. Jaipal Reddy, Congress(I) leaders, get Best Parliamentarian awards for the year 1997-98.
2/18/1911Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born.
3/1/1971Central Translation Bureau was setup as a subordinate office under the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Bureau undertakes translation work of manuals, codes, forms and other non-statutory procedural literature of various ministries, departments, offices of the Central Government and Undertakings, Banks etc.
7/15/1980Gajanan Vishwanath Ketkar, editor of `Kesri' and `Maratha', passed away.
7/15/1980Muhammad Tughluq Shah II passed away at Sindh.
2/25/1903Judge Kailas Nath Wanchoo, chief Justice of Supreme Court of India, was born.
12/20/1978Riots in many Indian cities in protest against Indira Gandhi's imprisonment.
3/25/1933Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born.
6/2/1988Raj Kapoor, famous film actor, director and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, passed away.