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Historical Event on 5/1/1996
Motilal Vohra, U.P. Governor, resigns (hawala case).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/15/1934 | Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed. |
| 1/4/1889 | Judge M. Patanjali Sastri, Chief Justice of India, was born. |
| 4/24/1929 | First non-stop flight from England to India takes-off. |
| 1/23/1975 | Omeo Kumar Das, one of the great patriots of Assam, passed away at the age of 81. He selflessly worked for the tea plantation workers and made efforts to get them better living standards. He translated Gandhiji's autobiography ""My Experiments with Truth"" in Assamese language. |
| 7/4/1991 | Fourth test of missile 'Prithvi'. |
| 7/30/1883 | Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 3/1/1908 | A.E.T. Barrow, educationist, was born. |
| 7/21/1911 | Umashankar Jethalal Joshi, famous Gujarati poet, Hindi writer and educationist, was born at Bamna in Gujarat. |
| 10/19/1990 | The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution. |
| 5/1/1964 | Ravishankar University was established at Raipur in Madhya Pradesh. |
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