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Historical Event on 5/1/1997
Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/14/1999 | Arvind Dave is appointed Governor of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 1/3/1978 | Chandrasekar takes 6-52 at MCG in Indian innings win. |
| 9/19/1997 | A Delhi court rules that interviewing of the child and parents by school authorities, for admission to primary classes, is illegal and improper. |
| 1/25/1948 | French India Peoples' Convention, Pondicherry, passed a resolution for complete merger of the French India with the Dominion of India. - G. V. Mavlankar was elected the first Speaker of the Indian Parliament. |
| 5/24/1956 | Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated. |
| 10/19/1929 | Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born. |
| 5/26/1926 | Kankalta, freedom fighter, was born in Bargawadi village at Assam . She was shot when she tried to flur the Indian National Flag in Gopur, Assam. |
| 6/23/1953 | Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician, national leader and founder of JanSangh Party, died at Srinagar while in detention. |
| 3/1/1993 | Narayan Ganesh Goray passed away (1-5-98). |
| 10/31/1966 | Mihir Sen swam Panama Canal in 34 hours 15 minutes. |
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