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Historical Event on 5/1/1998
India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/20/1920 | Usha Mehta, freedom fighter, was born at Satara. Her name is closely attached with freedom movement via Bombay Radio, as she and Babubhai Prasad and Vitthalbhai Zaveri founded this Radio and started motivating people of India with their telecasts. |
| 3/3/1983 | Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi. |
| 12/5/1959 | K. S. Duleepsinhji, cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), passed away. |
| 12/11/1780 | Goddard General, Bassein fort was captured near Bombay. |
| 1/23/1809 | Veer Surendra Sai, freedom fighter and revolutionary, was born in Khinda village in the north of Sambalpur at Orissa. |
| 9/15/1947 | Gandhi deplores the idea of population transfer. |
| 12/27/1977 | The Congress party splits into two factions, one supporting and one opposing Indira Gandhi. |
| 1/17/1908 | Akkineni Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, film producer, was born. |
| 2/14/1881 | Rajendra Lal Dutta and M.M.Basu established the first Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital in Calcutta. |
| 10/2/1952 | Community Development Programme started. |
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