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Historical Event on 5/6/1775
Nanda Kumar, king of Calcutta, was arrested.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/4/1997 | Centre frees from its control nine top public sector undertakings, accounting for over Rs. 10,000 crore profits annually, to become global giants by providing them full financial and operational autonomy. This included newsprint and paper from licensing controls. |
| 10/17/1999 | Dingko Singh won the bantam weight gold while Services' Ramanand was adjudged the best boxer in the National Boxing championship which concluded in Shimla. |
| 9/14/1820 | Agri-Horticultural Garden of Calcutta started functioning. |
| 3/11/1989 | In Bihar, a 13-member ministry headed by Satyendra Narain Sinha, MP, was sworn in. |
| 9/12/1779 | Garibdas, follower of Saint Kabir and founder of 'Garib Panth', died. |
| 4/5/1993 | The Left and Democratic Front earns two third majority at the Tripura Assembly elections. |
| 7/6/1960 | The President promulgates the ESMA, 1960. |
| 9/8/1965 | Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division. |
| 3/22/1971 | Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, great social reformer, revolutionary and poet, passed away. |
| 5/14/1998 | India will not sign CTBT unconditionally, says the Prime Minister. |
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