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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 |
| 7/1/1962 | Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, great leader, veteran nationalist, politician, professor, physician and architect, passed away. |
| 3/24/1998 | 200 people are killed in a tornado on both sides of the West Bengal-Orissa border. The toll includes 80 from West Bengal's Midnapore district. |
| 1/26/1997 | Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places. |
| 11/3/1929 | Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born. |
| 7/15/1992 | Lucknow High Court stays any construction activity near the disputed temple in Ayodhya. |
| 11/3/1995 | Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim. |
| 3/14/1998 | Sonia Gandhi takes over as the Congress(I) president from Sitaram Kesri. |
| 11/14/1914 | Eight Language panel were started on the Rs. five denomination again. The printing colour of note was red. These languages were Urdu, Telugu, Kaithi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Burmese and Gujarati. |
| 10/21/1934 | Loknayak Jayprakash Narayan and his friends established the 'Congress Socialist Party' and Acharya Narendra Dev was its President and JP was its Gen. Secretary. |
| 3/31/1843 | Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Annasaheb), first musical playwright of Marathi, was born. |
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