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Historical Event on 5/5/1998

Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/14/1990J&K Governor quits.
6/19/1979Morarji Desai resigns after split in Janata Party.
9/24/1994At least 100 people die after an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the western city of Surat.
7/13/1998The Government is prevented from tabling the Women's Reservation Bill.
5/16/1975Sikkim annexed principality and was declared as the 22nd state of Indian Union.
12/6/1732Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General of East India Company in India, was born in Churchill village of Oxfordshire in UK.
10/16/1905Bengal was partitioned by Lord Curzon on the pretext of it being too big to administer. Instead of dividing it on the basis of non-Bengali areas, the division was on the basis of Hindus and Muslims. Britishers thought that would succeed in increasing Hindu - Muslim tensions. The tremor of partition was felt throughout India and was regarded as an insult and challenge to Indian Nationalism. A movement was launched by the moderates. New method of protests 'Swadeshi and Swaraj' became the slogan of the common man and the whole of India was drawn into the national movement.
7/6/1930Balmurlikrishna, famous singer, was born.
12/21/1998The Viswabharati University in Calcutta presents the 'Deshikottama' award to Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen.
12/23/1977Harvinder Singh, great Indian ODI pace-bowler (1997), was born.