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Historical Event on 1/5/1988

India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/7/1998India wins Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy defeating Sri Lanka by six runs in the final at Colombo. New Zealand was the third team in the fray.
11/8/1927Lal Krishna Adwani was born in Karachi (now in Pakistan).
10/2/1999Home Minister L. K. Advani said that the BJP was ready to provide letters of support.
8/11/1893First Hindu-Muslim riots in Maharashtra.
7/19/1952India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 runs earlier in the day.
11/12/1984Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President.
9/2/1992Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.
2/10/1927Dashrathi (Dashrathi Krishnamacharya), famous Telgu poet, was born.
12/12/1992The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad.
4/15/1947Issues with Jinnah a joint appeal for communal peace.