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Historical Event on 5/5/1972
Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/1/1997 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil. |
| 10/23/1970 | If India's ""vasectomy fairs"" had hawkers, they might cry, ""Come one, come all & all one billion."" India faces a population of one billion by the year 2000. To hold down that number, the government offered money ($13 to each man) and gifts (a sari for his wife) to those willing to be sterilized. Thirteen dollars was more than three times what an average village worker can earn in one month. In December, a fair held at Kerala attracted 15,000 men. Just seven months later, a fair in the same town received 63,000. Doctors operated in ten-hour |
| 4/17/1946 | Bellary Raghava, famous actor, social worker, lawyer and dramatist, passed away. |
| 8/4/1936 | Indian Government Act was approved by the king. |
| 12/15/1951 | Scindia's SS Jal Pushpa launched. |
| 6/6/1997 | New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being. |
| 8/7/1906 | First Tricoloured National Flag consisting of Green, Yellow and Red, with eight Lotuses on the top, second strip carrying ""Vande Matara"" in Devnagri and the third strip having Sun and Cresent Moon, was hoisted at Green Park in Calcutta by Surendranath Banerjee. |
| 1/28/1961 | Foundation-stone of the first factory of H.M.T. wrist watches laid in Bangalore. |
| 11/5/1956 | Nehru breaks silence condemning Soviets for repression in Hungary. |
| 2/2/1959 | Indira Gandhi was elected the president of the ruling Congress Executive Party. Thereby Congress spilt,and leftist formed Swantantra Party. |
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