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Historical Event on 5/2/1953
40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
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| 8/18/1991 | 12 LTTE militants commit suicide. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
| 11/15/1999 | The no-confidence motion moved against Om Prakash Chautala by the opposition failed in Haryana. |
| 4/29/1882 | Raja Ali Sayyed, leader of Muslim League, was born. |
| 12/16/1770 | Ludwig Van Beethoven, greatest musician, poet and innovator, was born. |
| 9/11/1954 | Ram Naresh, editor and Hindi author, was born. |
| 8/19/1927 | Ananta Narsinha Naik, social reformer and politician, was born at Bandora, Goa. |
| 12/27/1975 | A coal-mine was exploded at Chasnala mine near Dhanbad. It was India's worst coal mine disaster. |
| 1/22/1886 | Harikrishna Premi, Hindi writer, passed away. |
| 9/3/1916 | Annie Besant started 'Home Rule' movement. |
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