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Historical Event on 5/7/1985

Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/7/1985Allau'd-din Hasan Gangu alias Jafar Khan. The Muslim kingdom of Bahmani dynasty in the south as Sultan Allau'd-din Khalji. He renamed Gulbarga, his capital as 'Hasanabad'.
5/7/1985Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
12/7/1998A. B. Vajpayee questions Pakistan's decision to hand over part of occupied Kashmir to China and says the area belongs to India.
3/3/1885Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt).
6/12/1891Gandhiji sailed for India and reached in July.
3/20/1959For the first time, officials of the Indian government confirmed reports of widespread resistance to the Chinese occupying forces in Tibet. Open warfare erupted in the capital city of Lhasa.
7/12/1960Ranchi University was established.
12/30/1906The All India Muslim League was founded in Dacca by a group of big landlords which included Aga Khan III, The Nawab of Dacca and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk-Salimullah. They supported the Partition of Bengal and called for seperate Muslim electrorates and other safeguard for Muslims.
8/9/1970Trailokyanath Chakravarty died in Delhi.
10/16/1896Govindas Seth, hindi litterateur and politician, was born.