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Historical Event on 5/1/1996
International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/13/2000 | Vijay Samuel Hazare, former Indian cricket captain, becomes the first recipient of the 'Castrol Lifetime Achievement award'. |
| 3/23/2000 | Udham Singh (72), hockey legend, died at his home town in Sansarpur (near Jalandhar). |
| 2/13/1936 | Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai. |
| 11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
| 10/21/1996 | Japan gets non-permanent seat in Security Council after a contest with India. |
| 1/30/1996 | Maharashtra govt. decides to make school education free up to 10th standard. |
| 11/6/1985 | Sanjeev Kumar, film actor, died. |
| 1/22/1989 | Madhya Pradesh CM Arjun Singh resigns on Churhat lottery case grounds. |
| 1/19/1905 | Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, Bengali writer and thinker, passed away. |
| 6/25/1900 | Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England. |
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