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Historical Event on 11/5/1870
Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/20/1868 | Sisir Kumar, Basanta Kumar and Hemanta Kumar, three brothers, first published the 'Amrita Bazar Partika', a weekly issue in Bengali. |
| 5/3/1913 | Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, more generally known as Dada Saheb Phalke, was responsible for the production of India's first fully indigenous silent four-reel feature film 'Raja Harishchandra' which heralded the birth of the Indian film industry. The film had titles in Hindi and English and was released on May 3, 1913 at the Coronation Cinematograph in Bombay. |
| 4/18/1914 | Cottari Subbanna Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie), was born in Nagpur. |
| 3/13/1991 | President R. Venkataraman dissolves the Lok Sabha. |
| 3/6/1961 | India's first Financial daily 'The Economic Times' started publication from Bombay. |
| 5/22/1997 | At least 40 persons are killed and over 300 injured in an earthquake which hit Jabalpur city. |
| 2/14/1994 | The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires. |
| 2/7/1999 | Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble became the second only bowler in Test history after J.C. Laker (England) to take all ten wickets in an innings against Pakistan in the second Test in Delhi. |
| 11/17/1953 | Sadanand Swaminathan, famous journalist, passed away. |
| 7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
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