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Historical Event on 2/5/1992
Ajit Singh elected 'real J.D.' President.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/7/1958 | Acharya Kripalani elected leader of a new opposition group in the Lok Sabha. |
| 10/16/1788 | Maratha's crowned Shahaalam as king of Delhi. |
| 5/30/1999 | India rejects U.N. offer to send a special envoy to defuse Indo-Pak tensions. |
| 7/28/1924 | Many deaths were reported and several villages were destroyed due to floods in the south. |
| 5/25/1894 | Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away. |
| 11/25/2000 | Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Governments agree on a ""unified command'' for the STF operations against Veerappa |
| 11/19/1917 | Indira (Pridarshani) Gandhi, the first Indian Lady Prime Minister, was born at Allahabad. She was the only child of Jawharlal Nehru and took active participation in freedom fight by forming ""Vanar Sena"" (a team of young detectives). She lead India in a successful war against Pakistan to seperate East and West Pakistans and establish the nation of Banglades |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
| 8/16/1974 | A.Shankar was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 31st March 1977. |
| 5/24/1903 | Hemchandra Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali poet, passed away. |
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