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Historical Event on 1/5/1952

U.S. signs five-year accord to give India $ 50 mil. for economic development in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/1/1973Lakshdeep Minikai and Amin Divi were renamed as Lakshadweep, and Masker (Mysore) state renamed as Karnataka.
5/24/1993India and Uzbekistan sign five pacts.
2/23/1997Justice J. S. Verma appointed Chief Justice of India.
12/7/1999Nareshwar Dayal is appointed India's High Commissioner to UK.
1/23/199750,000 miners in Orissa lose jobs as 57 mines are closed down.
4/1/1990Gold Control Act was withdrawn.
4/29/1947Abolition of ""untouchability"".
5/27/1930India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured.
2/25/1993BJP rally in New Delhi foiled.
11/2/1774Lord Robert Clive, one of the founders of British Rule in India, British Army Chief and Diplomat, died. He committed suicide in England at the age of 49 under strain of ill health and charges of his misdeeds in India.