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Historical Event on 5/5/1947
Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/28/1930 | Police are stoned by demonstrators as they attempt to prevent an illegal flag-salutation ceremony at Bombay. |
| 2/18/1993 | Congress (I) secures absolute majority in Nagaland and emerges as the single largest party in Meghalaya. |
| 2/4/1993 | D. C. Kothari, famous scientist and educationalist, passed away. |
| 1/1/1999 | George Fernandes, Defence Minister, said the sacked Naval Chief, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, had been displaying ""disturbing tendencies"" for over a year and even threatened his successor, Admiral Sushil Kumar, with court martial. |
| 8/5/1965 | M. V. Sridhar, cricketer (scored 366 for Hyderabad vs Andhra Pradesh, 1994), was born. |
| 8/13/1951 | Acharya Kishoridas Vajpayee passed away. |
| 12/5/1951 | Abanindranath Tagore, a great Modern Indian Painter, passed away. |
| 12/10/1905 | Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 4/1/1855 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published. |
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