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Historical Event on 5/7/1985

Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/5/1917'Hindumashinary Society' was established by Gajanan Bhaskar Vaidya.
8/4/1979Indian Airlines AVRO-748 crashes in to a hill near Bombay.
4/9/1997Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy in Gwalior.
2/26/1966Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet.
10/5/1997Dr. Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian woman to become an astronaut. (year 1997 or Oct. 5, 1998)
9/24/1629Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies.
3/10/1969Parliament passed the Act that made Central Industrial Security Force as an Armed Force of the union.
3/20/1993Kondapally Seetaramaiah, founder of the Peoples War Group of Naxalities in Andhra Pradesh, arrested.
4/1/1993National Aeronautical Laboratory becomes National Aerospace Laboratories.
8/22/1993The first batch of IAF troops landed in the capital city of Mogadishu.