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Historical Event on 7/5/1997

Janata Dal splits. Laloo Prasad Yadav forms Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sharad Yadav was elected as the Janta Dal president.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/14/1907P. C. Joshi, famous Leftist leader and thinker, was born.
11/24/1926Aurobindo Ghose, former I.C.S. and revolutionary, attained full enlightenment I.e 'Purna Siddhi'.
3/8/1963Gursharan Singh Narainsingh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90), was born in Amritsar.
8/15/1947Lord Louis Mountbatten took charge as the first British Governor General of Indian Union and occupied this office till June 20, 1948.
10/21/1916Dinkarrai Dhirajlal Desai, cricket Test Umpire for 3 tests from 1955-57, was born in Gujarat.
4/1/2000Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi.
3/11/1915Vijay Samuel Hazare, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54), was born in Sangli, Maharashtra.
10/1/1967Indian Tourist Development Corporation Limited established.
9/18/1917Sher Singh, educationist and politician, was born at Baghpur (Haryana).
10/12/1991Sonia Gandhi declineed to contest from Amethi.