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Historical Event on 5/5/1977
Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/1/1790 | A treaty was signed between Marathas, Britishers and Nizam. |
| 1/21/1943 | Hemu Kalani, revolutionary freedom fighter and social reformer, was hanged by British police. |
| 8/21/1955 | Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak, noted critic of Gujarati literature, poet and story writer, passed away. |
| 8/5/1981 | Jagjivan Ram heads breakaway Congress(U) and calls new party Congress (J). |
| 12/5/1998 | Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan take over as the new Foreign Minister and Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Jagmohan takes over as Minister for Communications. |
| 7/7/1763 | Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal. |
| 12/6/1992 | 300,000 Hindus destroy the mosque of Babri at Ayodhya, India. 4 die and BJP government in UP, led by Kalyan Singh, was dismissed and President's rule promulgated. Then countrywide riots followed. Pakistan and Bangladesh condemned demolition. |
| 1/1/1989 | Dinkar Sakrikar, editor of monthly magzine 'Purva' and socialist, passed away. |
| 10/1/1981 | Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested. |
| 4/3/1999 | India's INSAT-2E multipurpose telecommunications satellite is successfully launched from the Kourou space station in French Guyana. |
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