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Historical Event on 5/7/1994

Sunit Khatau, famous industrialist and textile magnet in Mumbai and owner of Khatau Group, was murdered. He was 55.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/5/1947Indian Act, 1947 was presented in British Parliament, which was then accepted by the emperor on 18th July.
10/2/1911Ambat Menon, great educationist, was born at Chittore, Kerala .
6/28/1975Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions.
7/30/1997Madras High Court restrains, by an interim injunction, the foreign universities/institutions having offices in India from awarding or conferring any degree on Indian students.
1/10/1920India became member of League of Nations.
3/1/1930Coimbatarao Doraikannu Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's), was born in Madras.
3/17/1989Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, president of Lok Dal (B) and former Union Minister, passed away.
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
11/2/1992Nine Maharashtra ministers resign.
2/1/1929Jyotirbhaskaracharya Jayant Salgaonkar was born.