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Historical Event on 5/5/1989
Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/2000 | The Centre begins the process of privatising the country's domestic carrier, Indian Airlines, and also approves the sale of majority equity in Modern Foods India Limited. |
| 9/16/1916 | D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. |
| 5/29/1933 | Kishorilal Goswami, famous Hindi novelist, passed away. |
| 9/1/1956 | Life Insurance Corporation of India was established and all Life Insurance Business Companies were nationalised and merged in this corporation. |
| 11/24/1969 | Guru Nanak University established at Amritsar, Punjab. |
| 10/1/1932 | Indian Milatary Academy became functional with Brigadier LP Collins, DSO, OBE as the Commandant. The first course of 40 GCs had on its rolls Sam Manekshaw, Smith Dun and Mohd Musa, later to be Chiefs of the armies of their respective countries, i.e. India, Burma (now Myanmar) and Pakistan. This training was for a period of two and a half years. |
| 10/2/1950 | Persis Khambatta, famous actress (Star Trek, Megaforce), was born in Bombay. |
| 7/10/1971 | Kochin University was established in Kerala. |
| 11/12/1930 | First 'Round Table Conference' started in London. Only Muslim League party was present in the conference and there were no representative of Congress. 16 Indian Kings, 23 British representatives and other 56 Indians took part in this conference. The Muslim League consisted of Sir Agha Khan, Mohammed Ali Jauhar, Quaid-e-Azam, Sir Mohammed Shafi, Fazl-ul-Haq, Chaudhary Zafarullah and Ghulam Hussain. |
| 11/30/1974 | India, Pakistan decide to end the ten-year trade ban. |
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