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Historical Event on 5/2/1921
Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''.
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| 6/6/1924 | S. R. Bommai, former President of Janata Dal, was born. |
| 10/27/1982 | Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died. |
| 1/12/1990 | Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht retain National badminton titles. |
| 4/11/1856 | Lievens Constantly, Flemish missionary in India, was born. |
| 10/23/1997 | Chief Ministers of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka set deadline upto 31st October for sandalwood smuggler Veerappan to surrender. |
| 6/29/1893 | Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, physics, mathematics expert and founder of Indian Statistical Institute, was born at Calcutta. |
| 12/10/1878 | Muhammad Ali Jauhar, great eminent journalist, editor, orator, fighter and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia, was born at Najibabad, UP. |
| 2/5/1968 | Narottam Nagar, veteran hindi writer, passed away. |
| 4/26/1993 | Indian Airlines' IC 491 crashes at Aurangabad, killing 55 passengers. |
| 11/7/1862 | Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision. |
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