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Historical Event on 5/5/1916
Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/5/1916 | Indian Women's University was established at Hingne near Poona by Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve with just four students. After 1920, it was renamed as Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Indian Women's University. |
| 1/15/1998 | Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur. |
| 11/12/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President. |
| 2/24/1880 | Satyanarayan, great poet of Kannada language, was born. |
| 2/24/1880 | Guru Arjun Dev, Sikh Guru, was born. |
| 6/30/1817 | Dadabhai Navroji, veteran leader and industrialist, died. |
| 8/18/1997 | Shanvac-B, India's first genetically engineered vaccine for Hepatitis B was launched. |
| 4/24/1932 | 450 people seized by British for defying ban on Indian National Congress. |
| 2/25/1977 | Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun. |
| 1/1/1978 | Samrat (Emperor) Ashoka, Air India's first Jumbo-Jet Boeing 747, after explosion falls into Arabian Sea, killing 213 people. Nobody survived. |
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