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Historical Event on 5/5/1916

Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab.

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2/11/1933First edition of weekly ""Harijan"" edited by Mahatma Gandhi was published from Pune in English and Hindi.
12/21/1974Inssatvahana, the first establishment to give submarine training, was commissioned at Visakhapatnam.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
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4/7/1998Soli Sorabjee is appointed Attorney-General of India.
2/10/1961P. L. Deshpande played first solo drama 'Batatyachi Chawl'.
4/18/1971Gavaskar makes 220 in second innings vs West Indies after 124 in first.
11/3/1929Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born.
7/22/1678Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.
11/9/1913Weekly 'Pratap' was published from Kanpur which was edited by Ganesh Shankar Vidyrarthi.