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Historical Event on 5/5/1998

Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/31/1992Sitar maestro Pt. Ravishankar wins the Magsaysay Award.
6/19/1747Nadirshaha passed away.
8/8/1990Violent protests rock Bihar against Mandal Commission Report implementation.
1/25/1971Himachal Pradesh becomes a full-fledged 18th Indian Union state.
12/26/1991Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India.
5/7/1861Guru Dev Rabindranath Thakur alias Tagore, novelist, painter, educationist and freedom fighter, was born in Calcutta.
3/14/1963Jainarain Vyas, freedom fighter, leader, social reformer, patriot and a noble son of India, passed away.
8/18/1900Vijayalakshmi Pandit, first woman President of U.N.O. General Assembly, was born.
4/5/1940Charles Freer Andrews, a Christian Missionary, died in Calcutta. He is also referred as ""Deenabandhu Andrews"".
10/24/1994The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.