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Historical Event on 5/7/1950
Punjab Mail train crashed near Jasidh killing 81 persons.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/13/1998 | India and Germany sign an agreement on promoting and protecting investment in Bonn. |
| 10/6/1927 | First Indian Cinematograph Enquiry Committee, under the chairmanship of Diwan Bahadur T. Rangachariar, was appointed by the Government. |
| 11/8/1988 | Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' awarded 1988 Whitbread Prize. |
| 6/17/1991 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950). |
| 1/8/1947 | Rajasthan University established at Jaipur. |
| 3/21/1997 | Seven Kashmiri Pandits gunned down by militants in Sangrampura. |
| 7/22/1702 | The ""English Company of Merchants"" and the old East India Company was named the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies"". In1833, this name finally changed to East India Company. |
| 7/9/1873 | Henry Albert John Gidney, greatest leader and politician, was born in Igatpuri, Maharashtra. |
| 11/1/2000 | T. R. Prasad was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He holds this office till date. |
| 6/18/1879 | Venketeshwar Bachhali, famous physics scientist, was born. |
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