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Historical Event on 5/2/1953
40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.

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9/7/1931	Meena Mangeshkar, famous playback singer, was born.
12/14/1984	First MIG 27M aircraft assembled by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. takes off.
9/12/1961	Nalin Vilochan Sharma, great Hindi critic, died.
8/29/1928	Hiralal Ghisulal Gaikwad, cricket all-rounder who played the only test vs Pakistan, was born in Nagpur.
7/31/1948	State Transport Corporation was established in Calcutta.
6/25/1888	Lord Louis Mountbatten, British politician, was born.
11/6/1937	Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar).
11/7/1862	Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision.
5/29/1953	Mount Everest conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay.
10/10/1954	First 'President Award' was awarded to film 'Shyamchi Aai'.

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