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Historical Event on 5/1/1995
60 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/7/1907 | Murlidhar Shankar Deshpande, journalist and social worker, was born at Kadanachi Girvi Phaltan, Maharashtra. |
| 4/1/1957 | Postage stamps and sale of postal stationary was introduced as per decimal coinage system and Rupee was established to Hundred Naya Paisa. |
| 3/25/1983 | Chalpati Rao, great journalist, passed away. |
| 11/21/1962 | India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India. |
| 7/23/1856 | Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, scholar, mathematician, philosopher, militant nationalist Indian leader and who helped lay the foundation for India's independence, was born at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. |
| 10/23/1999 | V. P. Singh, former Prime Minister, tops the list of star witnesses in Bofors case. |
| 3/22/2000 | India's first third generation satellite 'Insat-3B' put in orbit by Europe's latest Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou in French Guyana. |
| 4/8/1887 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, famous Gujrati litterateur critic, poet and story writer, was born. |
| 8/29/1923 | Sir Richard Attenborough, famous actor and director (Gandhi, Young Winston), was born. |
| 8/12/1922 | Chunilal Kalidas Madiya, famous Gujrati one-act player, play wright story writer and novelist, was born. |
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