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Historical Event on 5/1/2000
Bidyut Ganguly (64), veteran CPI(M) leader and West Bengal Commerce and Industry Minister, died of severe burns in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/17/2000 | V.C. Pande, Bihar Governor, accords sanction to the CBI to prosecute RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav in a disproportionate assets case. |
| 11/16/1999 | Suraj Bhan, Bihar Governor, dismisses the Horticulture and Weights and Measurements Minister Samrat Chaudhary in the Rabri Devi cabinet for being 'underaged'. |
| 5/1/1996 | P. Shiv Shanker, Kerala Governor, resigns in view of the ongoing CBI investigation against him in the hawala case. |
| 5/31/1968 | F.V. Arul became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 06/05/71). |
| 2/26/1966 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great revolutionary freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, passed away at the ripe old age of 83. He was known for the first person to flee by swimming from Port Blair Jail and was associated with right-wing Hindu Mahasabha, started the Abinav Bharat as a secret society of revolutionary terrorists. He was a great Novelist and Poet. |
| 9/8/1972 | Vijay Singh Chauhan sets record for decathlon by 7378/7306 points at Munich. |
| 8/20/1915 | Devraj Ars, former chief minister of Karnataka, was born. |
| 1/16/1858 | Baithi, Laikha, Ratna, Maani, and the women who participated in Mairath Kranti at Gudgaon, all were hanged. |
| 5/10/1993 | Santosh Yadav becomes the first Indian woman to reach the Everest for the second time. |
| 9/24/1921 | Dr. Sakharam Gangadhar Malshe, researcher and critic, was born. |
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