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Historical Event on 4/5/1961

Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited was established in New Delhi by Indian Government for allopathic drugs.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/18/1959Premier Chou En-lai insists Tibetan Dalai Lama was abducted to India.
2/12/1990The Berlin Wall is taken down February 12. Germany is reunited over the next year. Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
5/11/1985Fifteen hundred people were arrested in Sikh violence.
2/28/1987The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event).
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
9/27/1925Rashtriya Swayansewak Sangh was established.
11/20/1969Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur.
12/28/1905Sir Dr. Gajapatairaj Vijaya Ananda, the Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, ""Vizzy"", cricketer and Indian Right Handed Batsman, was born at Vizianagar. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1958.
4/8/1857Mangal Pandey, the first revolutionary of Indian mutiny and freedom fighter, was hanged till death at Barrackpore. He struck the first bullet during the time of mutiny against the British Empire.
7/9/1951India's first Five Year Plan prepared and published. There was the first amendment to the Constitution and the first general elections were held.