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Historical Event on 5/1/1940
Marathi magzine `Digdarshan' was published.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/12/1961 | Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died. |
| 2/24/1988 | Prithvi, India's first Indigenously designed surface-to-surface tactical missile of 250km, was successfully test fired from Sriharikota. India becomes the fifth country to develop such a missile. |
| 5/20/1996 | Janaki Ramachandran, chief minister of Tamil Nadu (1988), passed away. |
| 12/6/1732 | Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK. |
| 4/1/1941 | Ajit Laxman Wadekar, cricketer (stalwart Indian batsman & capt and Team Manager), was born in Bombay. He has received the Arjun Award (1967) and Padmashree (1972). |
| 1/1/1974 | This year was announced to be observed as the ""World Population Year"". |
| 7/31/1992 | Thailand Airlines crashed in Himalayan Range, 113 persons died. |
| 12/27/1936 | Golden Jublee Session of Indian National Congress, under the presidentship of Jawaharlal Nehru, held at Faizpur urging India to strike at British imperialism. |
| 12/27/1931 | 150 are arrested following 'red shirt' riots in the N.W. Frontier province. |
| 10/3/1996 | National Conference swept back to power in J & K with a landslide victory. |
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