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Historical Event on 5/2/1922
Kedarnath Modi, great Industrialist in Maharashtra, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/1/1908 | Amir Elahi, right-hand batsman and right-arm leg-break bowler, born at Multan in Lahore. |
| 3/29/1992 | Centenary celebrations of Tansa Dam held at Tansa. No of Seats of the Standing Committee and Education Committee increased from 20 to 27and 20 to 26 respectively and that of the B.E.S. & T. Committee from 12 to 17 (Vide Maharashtra Act XXI of 1992) (CIVIC). |
| 1/30/1999 | Paes-Bhupathi stumbled in the doubles final losing to Patrick Rafter-Jonas Bjorkman in the Australian Open Tennis tournament. |
| 2/28/1928 | C. V. Raman invented 'Raman Effect' of scattered light, which led him in achieving the 'Nobel Prize'. |
| 9/29/2000 | The Appellate Authority of the Industrial and Financial Reconstruction stays the order of the BIFR permitting winding up of Bharat Gold Mines Limited, KGF, Karnataka. |
| 2/3/1988 | INS Chakra was inducted in the Indian Navy when the first Soviet SSN Victor 1 class nuclear propelled submarine and India joined the maritime nuclear powers. |
| 1/16/1938 | Sarat Chandra Chatterji, famous Bengali novelist and writer, passed away. |
| 8/15/1947 | On the the stroke of mid-night on 14th August 1947, India became independent and was partitioned. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister and Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first president of free India. The mixed economy policy was taken on a five-year plan basis for economic development. On 26th January 1950, India became a democratic and is the biggest democracy of the world today. In 1956, on the basis of languages, India was divided into 14 states and 6 union territories. Today, there are 27 states and 7 union territories. |
| 3/5/1948 | C. Rajagopalachari appointed the first Indian Governor General to succeed Lord Mountbatten on 21 June. |
| 6/20/1897 | Ratnakant Barkakti, famous Assamia poet, was born. |
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