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Historical Event on 5/2/1974
700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/2/1952 | India won first cricket Test Match at Chepauk Stadium, Madras. |
| 11/23/1908 | Durga Das, famous social reformer and journalist, was born. |
| 9/25/1985 | Akali Dal wins Punjab state elections. |
| 2/15/1992 | Kesri Publications started the first Indian newspaper in `Brail' lipi (language). |
| 12/6/2000 | A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, said, ""The Ayodhya agitation was an 'expression of nationalist feelings' and the ""task has remained unfinished |
| 2/8/1921 | Chamber prince of a Royal Proclamation was inaugurated. |
| 6/13/1991 | Shiv Sharma, Doordarshan Director General, was shot at in Delhi by suspected Punjab terrorists. |
| 9/5/1872 | V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 3/13/1878 | The Vernacular Press Act was passed which subsequently made the Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta an English newspaper. |
| 5/27/1968 | Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously. |
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