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Historical Event on 1/5/1659
Aurangzeb defeated Shah Shuja in the battle of Khawan near Allahabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1824 | Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, Bengali poet and dramatist, was born in Sagardari village of Jessore district. |
| 3/10/1998 | India 'A' beats Pakistan 'A' by 58 runs in the fourth test to clinch the rain-hit series 1-0 at Karachi. |
| 7/7/1997 | Armed Kuki militants shot dead 25 persons and injured five seriously in an attack on Paites village in Manipur. |
| 7/30/2000 | Punjab Police men and Indian Railways women claim the Federation Cup basketball tournament at Visakhapatnam. |
| 2/20/1929 | K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
| 12/8/1942 | Hemant Shamsunder Kanitkar, cricketer (batted in two Tests India v WI 1974), was born in Amravati, Maharashtra. |
| 4/21/1996 | Sanjay Thapar of the IAF (leader) becomes first Indian to parachute down to geometric North pole and unfurl the flag. |
| 4/22/1983 | Smt. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, visited ICMR Headquarters and held discussions with senior scientists of ICMR. ICMR revived research on indigenous drugs/traditional medicine with a new, disease-oriented approach and a Scientific Advisory Group on Traditional Medicine Research was constituted in 1983 but actual studies (Multicentric Clinical Trials, Centres for Advanced Research, Central Biostatistical Monitoring Unit etc.) were started in 1984-85. |
| 5/6/1861 | Motilal Gangadhar Nehru, great Indian lawyer, political leader and social reformer, was born at Agra. |
| 6/17/1862 | Lord Charles Jhon Canning, Governor General and Viceroy of India (1856-1862), died. |
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