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Historical Event on 5/7/1950
Punjab Mail train crashed near Jasidh killing 81 persons.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1987 | Rajiv Government defeats the first ever no-confidence motion. |
| 2/27/1803 | Great fire in Bombay. |
| 7/31/1993 | Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 8/22/1979 | Neelam Sanjeev Reddy, President of India, dissolves the sixth Lok Sabha, orders year-end general elections and asks Charan Singh to head a caretaker government. |
| 4/3/1700 | Sikandar, former sultan of Vijapur, passed away at Satara in the imprisonment of Mughals. |
| 8/1/1996 | T. S. R. Subramaniam was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1998. |
| 5/13/1962 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) retired from the post of first President. |
| 4/15/1976 | India announces it will send an envoy to Peking, first time in 15 years. |
| 2/25/1977 | Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun. |
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