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Historical Event on 1/5/1952
John Hope Victor Alexander, Viceroy of India (1936-43), died at the age of 64.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/23/1972 | Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi. |
| 3/6/1971 | Test debut of Sunil Gavaskar vs West Indies at Port-of-Spain. |
| 11/16/1993 | Kashmir's 32-day-old Hazaratbal impasse ends with militants' surrender. |
| 5/18/1775 | Warren Hastings expressed doubt of hanging Nandkumar. |
| 11/24/1924 | Rasipuram Krishnaswami Laxman, famous political cartoonist, was born. |
| 11/16/1997 | Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan offers to surrender. |
| 11/16/1997 | The first ship of the Dutch East India Company returned from Far East. |
| 12/16/1971 | Bangladesh was formed. President Yahya Khan of Pakistan changed his position dramatically and announced he would accept a ceasefire with India. After his forces in East Pakistan surrendered unconditionally, Yahya Khan vowed to keep fighting in the West against his political enemy. His reversal today undermines his administration, and there are growing indications he will step down as head of the military government. Yahya has already been criticized for his brutal repression of the Bengali separatist movement, which has renamed East Pakistan as Bangladesh. It appears that the separatists may actually benefit from the fighting, because India has managed to defeat most of Yahya's military forces in East Pakistan. |
| 9/29/1999 | Jaswant Singh, External Affairs Minister, meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz meet at the SAARC ministerial meeting. |
| 12/6/1993 | Samrendra Kundu, former foreign state minister and socialist of Orrisa, passed away. |
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