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Historical Event on 5/7/1950
Punjab Mail train crashed near Jasidh killing 81 persons.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/12/1918 | C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director, was born. |
| 3/24/1995 | Devchand Somaiyya, famous Table Tennis player, passed away. |
| 5/23/1924 | Venkatraman Narayan Swamy, cricketer (one Test v NZ in 1955, DNB, 0-45), was born in Calicut. |
| 8/13/1997 | Supreme Court lays down guidelines and norms for the effective enforcement of the basic human right of gender equality and guarantee against sexual harassment at work places. |
| 1/4/1906 | Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of Victoria Memorial Hall at Calcutta. |
| 8/16/1901 | Shripad Ramchandra Tikekar, journalist and critic, was born. |
| 12/23/1995 | 400 people, mostly children and their parents, die in a fire that broke out during the Annual Day celebrations of DAV Public School. The fire was suspected to be caused due to electric short-circuit in Mandi Dabwali, Haryana. |
| 1/11/1859 | Lord Curzon, Governor General and Viceroy, was born. |
| 11/24/1932 | The Third Round Table Conference ended in London. As Gandhi was in prison because of his civil disobedience movement he could not attend it. This conference ended without achieving anything. |
| 7/27/1995 | 11 Cong-I and National Conference activists were gunned down in J&K after they were abducted from their homes. |
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