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Historical Event on 7/5/1916
Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/17/1775 | Marathas were badly mauled in the battle of Arras by Col. Keating in the first Anglo - Maratha war. |
| 2/13/1856 | East India Company captured Lucknow along with Avadh Kingdom. |
| 10/2/1986 | Rajiv Gandhi survives assassination attempt made by Sikh extremists at Raj Ghat. |
| 12/31/1738 | Lord Charles Cornvalis, Governor General of India (1786-1793), was born. |
| 9/1/1981 | Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM, AVSM, VM., became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 03/Sept/1984. |
| 9/30/1989 | INS Shalki, India's first indigenously built submarine, launched in Bombay. |
| 5/13/1918 | Balasarswati, famous dancer of Bharat Natyam, was born. |
| 9/22/1869 | Shri Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Shastri, great scholar of Sanskrit, master, politician, social reformer, President of India and educationist, was born at Valangaiman village, Tamil Nadu. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 4/21/1994 | Malayalam sweeps national film awards. Mammootty, Shobhana best actor and actress; T.V. Chandran best director; Buddadeb Das Gupta's Bengali 'Charachar' adjudged best film. |
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