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Historical Event on 5/5/1818
Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/15/1984 | Extremist Sikhs plunder 40 stations in Punjab, India. |
| 4/30/1870 | Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter. |
| 4/1/1993 | National Aeronautical Laboratory becomes National Aerospace Laboratories. |
| 10/23/1990 | Following the arrest of its President L. K. Advani, who was leading a rathyathra to Ayodhya at Samasthipur in Bihar, BJP withdrew support to National Front Government. |
| 10/31/1920 | Inaugural session of the All India Trade Union Congress was conducted in Bombay. |
| 11/22/1999 | V. S. Rama Devi and Vishnu Kant Shastri appointed the new Governors of Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh. |
| 2/18/1992 | Sikh extremists murder 17 people in Punjab. |
| 5/28/1950 | Bhagwaticharan, great revolutionary, passed away. |
| 9/10/1966 | Parliament approved the Punjab Re-organisation Bill for the formation of Haryana and Punjab as two independent states. |
| 4/15/2000 | Baichung Bhutia became the first Asian-player to score a goal in the professional English game. |
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