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Historical Event on 2/5/1986
Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/20/1947 | First battle between India and Pakistan. |
| 10/3/2000 | Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee buys peace with the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by agreeing to a partial rollback of the hike in prices of petroleum products. |
| 12/23/2000 | The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''. |
| 5/5/1983 | Keshavrao Kothavle 'Lalit', editor of monthly magzine, passed away. |
| 8/22/1919 | Girijakumar Mathur, famous modern Hindi poet, was born. |
| 9/24/1856 | Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Governor General of India, passed away. |
| 2/19/1992 | A 12-member Congress (I) TUJS coalition ministry led by S. R. Burman sworn in Tripura. |
| 4/25/1915 | The German High Command has admitted that chlorine gas bombs and shells were used in the attack on the French front at Ypres three days ago. The effect of the gas attack was to open a four-mile gap in the Allied line. The Canadian troops on one flank held against German attacks, and British and Indian forces filled the breach. Fortunately for the Allies, the Germans had no reserve forces available to push into the breach. No tactical advantage was won by this first use of the new weapon. The Germans promised, however, that ""more effective substances can be expected."" Meanwhile, they were condemned for the use of this novel weapon. |
| 1/31/1958 | First Earth Satellite Explorer I was launched from Cape Kennedy. |
| 1/25/1976 | Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut during India vs New Zealand at Auckland. |
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