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Historical Event on 2/5/1630

Har Rai, Sikh Guru, was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/22/1993The centre bans the use of 12 pesticides.
10/29/1991Barister Waman Barlinge (Dadasaheb), great freedom fighter, former Rajya Sabha member and Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, passed away.
10/15/1977The Congress party denies bid by Indira Gandhi to regain leadership.
8/7/1925Monkombu 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.
1/2/1973General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw appointed as Field Marshall.
9/11/1956The PM announced in the Lok Sabha the conclusion of the Netaji Inquiry Committee that Netaji did die in an air-crash.
3/31/1998T. N. Mishra became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 04/01/99).
2/1/1944Arun Tikekar, editor and writer, was born.
11/21/1962India and China declared a truce from the war in which India was badly beaten. Because of winter in China, they halted their advance into India.
6/19/1999The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart.