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Historical Event on 5/6/1952
Dr. Rajendra Prasad re-elected the President of India ""Rashtrapati"" after the first Presidential election held under the Indian constitution.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/29/1939 | Netaji resigned from the Congress and established his own party, the Forward Block and created a political deadlock in India. |
| 9/16/1990 | Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War. |
| 12/9/1946 | The first meeting of Constitutional Committee Assembly was held in Parliment after a gap of two years, 11 months and 17 days. The Congress started its work of framing the Indian Constitution. Muslim League boycott failed to prevent Constituent Assembly opening. From 16th August 1946, the country witnessed communal riots on an unprecedented scale. At this crucial juncture, on 20th February 1947, Clement Atlee the British prime minister, fixed June 1948 as a deadline for transfer of power and Lord Mountbatten was appointed as the new Viceroy. |
| 8/1/1846 | Dwarkanath Tagore, a Hindu philanthropist, died in London. |
| 10/3/1997 | Devi Lal floats a new party 'Haryana Lok Dal'. |
| 3/15/1831 | First Marathi Almanac (Panchang) started by Ganpat Krishnaji. |
| 8/29/1998 | Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Joginder Singh Saini receives the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna award from President K.R. Narayanan in Delhi. |
| 3/3/1859 | A length of 119 miles of line was laid in the North from Allahabad to Kanpur. |
| 3/3/1859 | Akbar responded with alacrity and arrived at Ahmadabad and made adequate arrangements for its administration. |
| 5/20/1940 | Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away. |
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