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Historical Event on 6/5/1995

A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.
11/18/19371,100 prisoners freed after appeal by Gandhi, his first political act in year.
11/29/1953Benegal Narsing Rau, foremost Indian Jurist of his time, passed away at Zurich. He performed some very prominent duties towards the nation. He was Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and a judge at the Permanent Court of International Justice at Hague.
4/4/2000A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, inaugurates Samvidhan.com, a website about the Constitution. The site is a part of the Hindi portal, Webdunia.com.
10/24/1997Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.
3/10/1873Maulana Shaukat Ali, freedom fighter, nationalist and Muslim politician, was born.
10/14/1991Prasannakumar Abhyankar, senior journalist, died.
9/27/1972Shri Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, prolific author and first librarian of the University of Madras, passed away at the age of 80 at Bangalore.
8/10/1758Marathas won the Atak.
4/17/1946Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, greatest social reformer, freedom fighter, educationist, politician, master, scholar of Sanskrit and President of India, passed away.