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Historical Event on 01/05/1316

Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan was born.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/9/1897Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official).
4/8/1923Plague in India killed 1,000 in past week.
5/18/1945Bhagwat Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, cricketer (brilliant Indian leggie 1964-79), was born in Banglore. He received Arjun Award and Padmashree awards in 1972.
3/15/1904Annada Shankar Rai, modern Oria and Bengali poet, was born.
7/28/1989Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law.
6/29/1873Micheal Madhusudan Dutta, first Bengali modern poet, died.
7/5/1992Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories.
9/1/1887Karmveer Bhaurao Paygaunda Patil, educationist, social reformer and founder of 'Rayat Educational Institute', was born.
5/19/1904Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
4/15/1794Moropant Paradkar, great poet of Marathi in Peshwa kingdom, passed away.