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Historical Event on 1/5/1988

India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/9/1997Poonam Chibber, Miss Canada, crowned seventh Miss India Worldwide.
2/22/1997Jockey Mark Gallagher shot at and injured in Bangalore.
4/5/1961Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited was established in New Delhi by Indian Government for allopathic drugs.
5/21/1999A powerful bomb explodes and another is defused on the road leading to the Imphal airport minutes before the Prime Minister landed to commence his two-day visit to the State.
12/28/1977Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died.
8/9/1997Sonia Gandhi addresses Congress plenary session at Calcutta.
5/3/1936Engelbert Humperdinck [Arnold George Dorsey], famous singer, was born in Madras, India.
7/13/1830Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Alexander Duff, in 1921 Scottish Church College, General Assembly s Institution was established with only five students, where teaching of the Bible took an important part.
7/13/1907Hari Vishnu Kamat, great politician, was born.
11/20/1969The Union Home Ministry decides to reserve posts for SC\STs in the public sector undertakings.