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Historical Event on 11/5/1870
Chittaranjan Das, freedom fighter, famous lawyer and orator, was born at Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/2/1930 | Vasudev Govind Apte, editor and dictrionay creator, passed away. |
| 11/18/1988 | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Delhi on a three-day visit. |
| 4/11/1906 | K.V. Jagannathan, great Hindi writer and journalist, was born at Krishnarayapuram,Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/14/1955 | Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, died in Bombay. |
| 7/8/1997 | 33 persons killed and 67 injured as blast rips through part of Ambala-bound train at Lehra Khana station in Bhatinda district, Punjab. |
| 2/25/1968 | Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970. |
| 1/1/1988 | On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking. |
| 3/19/1998 | E.M.S. Namboodiripad, veteran communist leader of CPM and Kerala's first Chief Minister, passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 88. |
| 2/11/1996 | Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta. |
| 10/18/1992 | 1,000 police personnel occupy the Golden Temple in Amritsar to keep Punjab separatists away. |
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