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Historical Event on 4/5/1950

Spurred by recent clashes in East and West Bengal between Muslims and Hindus, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Pakistani couterpart Ali Khan today reached agreement on a ""Bill of Rights for Minorities"". This bill included a provision for ""drumhead justice,"" or summary justice to persons convicted of violating minority rights.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/28/1984Bhausaheb Ranade, famous freedom fighter, passed away.
4/13/1982Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal passed away.
1/18/1963Laxminarayn Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, passed away.
11/21/199227 killed in a bomb blast engineered by Bodo extremists in a bus in Assam.
7/15/1920Earthquake in Delhi.
5/5/1986Controversial Muslim Women Bill passed by Lok Sabha.
12/23/1902Chaudhary Charan Singh was born at Noopur village in Hapur Tehsil near Meerut. He was a freedom fighter and had done many deeds for upliftment of Agriculture in India. He was the Prime Minister of India from July 1979 to January 1980.
3/3/1982Firaq Gorakhpuri ""Raghupati Sahay"", great writer, nationalist and who revolutionised Urdu poetry, died.
6/13/1992Security scam: assets of three SBI officials attached.
1/14/1998The Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh come together for a three-nation business summit in Dhaka.