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Historical Event on 5/5/1966
Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/2/1900 | Sri Ram Sharma Acharya, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, passed away. |
| 5/13/2000 | Lara Dutta (21), who said beauty pageants give women a platform to ''voice our choices and opinions'' is named Miss Universe 2000 in the Cyprus capital Nicosia. |
| 3/22/1915 | Dr. Nagendra, famous hindi critic, was born. |
| 2/19/1995 | National Research Centre for Oil Palm(NRCOP), the only institute exclusively devoted to Oil Palm research in India, was established. |
| 6/20/1996 | Govt. of India declares at Geneva conference on 'Global Ban On Nuclear Testing' that it won't sign the CTBT. |
| 2/3/1912 | Bardanand Chattergy, chemical expert, was born. |
| 12/4/1997 | World Bank commits to Haryana a loan of $600 millions (about Rs. 2,350 crores) - largest single bank loan to any State. |
| 7/16/1981 | India performs nuclear Test. |
| 11/21/1914 | Ujwala Mazumdar, freedom fighter and member of Bengal Valunteers, was born at Dhaka. |
| 1/11/1973 | Rahul Dravid, cricket batsman, was born in Indore. |
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