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Historical Event on 5/1/2000

Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1954Manabendranath Roy, famous leader of socialist revolution, passed away at Dehradun.
11/22/1915Mohandas Gandhi returns to India.
8/13/1960Marmik' weekly magzine published.
11/2/1950India rebukes Mao for invasion of Tibet.
6/7/1955Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, visited U.S.S.R.
7/13/1999Floods claim 15 more lives in Bihar.
11/30/1982World premier of Sir Richard Attenborough's 'Gandhi' held in New Delhi.
4/21/1996Sanjay Thapar of the IAF (leader) becomes first Indian to parachute down to geometric North pole and unfurl the flag.
1/4/1972Pakistan proposed to talk after the war.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.