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Historical Event on 5/7/1973

Shivkumar Batalvi, famous Punjabi poet, died.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1991Kerala declared the first fully literate state in the country.
12/22/1998The Patents Bill gets Rajya Sabha approval.
8/29/1995National Sports Day declared.
2/13/1922The Indian National Congress suspends its civil disobedience campaign in the face of mounting violence.
10/10/2000The world's first elected woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike died of heart attack in Colombo.
6/11/1931Purushottam Vishnu Behre, great editor, story and novel writer, was born.
8/4/1997Supreme Court declares that the Rashtrapati Bhavan press communique of 23/1/1992 on a proposal to confer the Bharat Ratna 'posthumously' on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ""should be treated as cancelled"", as the proposal was dropped by the Government in deference to the sentiments expressed by the public and his family members.
6/2/1997Saudi Boeing 747 Jumbo with 348 people on board misses the Meenambakkam international airport, Chennai and forcelands at Tambaram Air Force strip.
10/10/1952US mediator Frank Graham told the U.N. Security Council that there was a possibility of war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.
3/1/1917Kartar Singh Duggal, famous author, was born at Dhamyal, Pakistan.