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Historical Event on 5/2/1908
Police in Calcutta discover a cache of explosives for use in alleged anarchist plot.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/7/1989 | Sheetal Pandya set up a world record at the age of 5 years. |
| 8/27/1604 | Guru Granth Sahib was established in the Golden Temple of Amritsar. |
| 12/3/1984 | 3,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India. |
| 12/3/1984 | Humayun crossed the Indus and captured Lahore and ousted Sikandar Suri of Delhi throne. |
| 12/3/1984 | Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal was succeeded as the Viceroy of Protuguese India by Affonso de Albuquerque, who is regarded as the real founder at Portuguese power in India. |
| 12/3/1984 | Meerabai, saint poet, passed away. |
| 12/3/1984 | Iltutmish, father of Radiya Sultan, died in Delhi. |
| 1/27/1931 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail, ending eight months of imprisonment for his campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. To avoid demonstrations, Gandhi was released late in the evening from the Yerovda jail and put on a night train to Bombay. There was hope in British circles that the release of Gandhi would end the strife and lead to discussions of dominion status. Gandhi made clear, however, that he would persist in his civil disobedience campaign. |
| 9/19/1950 | U. N. Assembly rejects Indian-Soviet proposal to admit Communist China in New York. |
| 10/30/1928 | Madhav Vinayak Gothoskar, cricket Test umpire for 14 tests from 1972-84, was born in Mumbai. |
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