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Historical Event on 5/2/1998
The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/5/1918 | Ratanji Jamshetji Tata, famous Indian industrialist and social reformer, died. |
| 6/30/1914 | Mahatma Gandhi's first arrest during campaigning for Indian rights in S Africa. |
| 11/19/2000 | Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, agriculture scientist, gets the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 1999. |
| 11/19/2000 | Vasco-de-Gama was the Last Viceroy of Portuguese, who ruled India. |
| 8/7/1925 | Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam. He went to Britain and took his Ph.D from the school of Agriculture in Cambridge in 1952. He developed high yielding strains of wheat and rice and accomplished difficult crosses in potato and jute species. In 1971, he was awarded The Ramon Magsaysay Award for generating a new confidence in the agricultural capabilities of the country. He was the Director of the International Rice Research Institute, Philippines. He is also the first agriculture scientist to win the Albert Einstein world science Award in 1986. |
| 4/3/1998 | Pramod Mahajan, senior BJP functionary, is appointed Political Advisor to Prime Minister ""in the rank and status of Cabinet Minister in the PMO"". |
| 8/4/1967 | World's longest and highest Dam 'Nagarjun Sagar' made by Masonary System was inaugrated. |
| 6/20/1957 | Govindrao Burhanpurkar, famous harmonium player, died. |
| 4/3/1950 | Jayprakash Shankarrao Mundada, cabinet Minister of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance, was born. |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
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