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Historical Event on 5/11/1888
Asaf Ali, lawyer, nationalist, writer and connoisseur of music and arts, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/4/1990 | V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue. |
| 1/1/1995 | 8th World Tamil Conference begins in Madurai. |
| 9/22/1994 | G. N. Joshi, famous singer, died. |
| 6/9/1986 | First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai. |
| 1/24/1950 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India. |
| 5/10/1901 | Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian scientist, in the hall of the Royal Society, London, which was packed with eminent scientists today on May 10, 1901 proved that ""plants and animal have similar touch sense"". |
| 3/21/1971 | Gavaskar scores the first of his 34 Test tons, 116 at Georgetown. |
| 1/11/1975 | Oil struck in third Bombay High rig. |
| 5/17/1996 | Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), passed away. |
| 3/4/1991 | Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha presents mid-term budget, cut in food and fertiliser subsidy, amounting to Rs. 934 crore, proposed. |
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