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Historical Event on 5/1/2000

Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/195760 Harijans enter the Vishwanath Temple at Varanasi.
6/8/1968Madhuri Mani Iyyer, famous singer of Karnatak Gharana, passed away.
1/17/1833William Rush, Indian sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), passed away.
5/28/1992Indo-US naval exercises begin.
4/17/1977Swatantra Party was merged in Janata Party.
5/16/1998India rejects China's charges on N-tests.
12/23/1930The British governor of Punjab was wounded in an assassination attempt.
12/11/1906Mysore Gururaj Vijayasarathi, cricket Test umpire for 13 tests from 1951-60, was born in Karnataka.
7/21/1907Gulam Mohamad Bakshi, former Prime Minister Jammu and Kashmir, was born.
11/3/1997India presents G-15 with agenda for a fair deal in Kuala Lumpur. India calls upon Group of 15 developing countries to ""build convergences among nations and encourage G-7 to pursue structured and issue-based dialogue with us'