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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 |
| 1/5/1952 | Rumi, famous Muslim Sufi poet, was born. |
| 11/8/1968 | Jansattak Party established. |
| 5/10/1905 | Pankaj Malik, music director, was born. |
| 1/30/1949 | Night Airmail Services was inaugurated. |
| 5/8/1998 | Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, gets the Gandhi award for 1998. |
| 12/7/1825 | First Steam Engine Ship ""Enterprise"" reached Calcutta. |
| 12/3/1971 | Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief. |
| 8/20/1997 | Lata Mangeshkar receives the Fifth Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award from the President. |
| 6/11/1907 | Shantilal Jivanlal Gandhi, famous Hindi writer, was born in Mehmadabad, Gujarat . |
| 5/9/1996 | Kerala CM A.K. Antony resigns. |
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