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Historical Event on 1/5/1893
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/17/1947 | Rajendra Prasad elected the President of Indian National Congress. |
| 2/27/1993 | Rupee made fully convertible in Man Mohan Singh's third successive budget. |
| 2/28/1987 | The National Science Day was celebrated for the first time at the ICMR Headquarters and all its Institutes/Centres in February 1987 through exhibitions, lectures, demonstration campaigns etc. (This has now become an annual event). |
| 3/25/1905 | Mirza Rasid Ali Baig, famous Indian politician, was born. |
| 11/20/1989 | Hirabai Barodekar, famous singer of ""Kirana Gharana"", passed away. |
| 12/5/1898 | Josh Malihabadi, famous Urdu poet, was born. |
| 2/24/1996 | Naresh Chandra appointed India's ambassador to USA. |
| 1/25/1989 | Motilal Vora sworn in as CM of Madhya Pradesh. |
| 4/5/1922 | Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away. |
| 6/24/1928 | Mrinal Keshav Gore, leader in Maharashtra, was born. |
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