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Historical Event on 5/1/1922
Madhu Limaye, great politician, freedom fighter, writer and national leader, was born at Pune, Maharashtra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/19/1911 | K.N. Vaswani, educationist and Journalist, was born at Hyderabad, Sind. |
| 7/1/1985 | Air Chief Marshal L M Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, died in office. |
| 5/5/1930 | Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year. |
| 6/4/1912 | Alungal Mathai Thomas, social reformer, politician and diplomat, was born at Kurikad, Kerala. |
| 9/27/1977 | Sanjiva Reddy was elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Government revokes the external emergency promulgated on December 3, 1971. |
| 12/28/1977 | Sumitranandan Pant, famous Hindi poet and literaeur, died. |
| 10/14/1955 | Colombo Plan conference held at New Delhi pleas for technological aid to Asia . |
| 8/20/1909 | Urmila Devi Shastri, freedom fighter, was born at Srinagar. |
| 5/21/1998 | India declares a moratorium on nuclear testing. |
| 6/26/1982 | First Boeing 707 of Air India `Gaurishankar' was crashed at Sahar Airport (Bombay). |
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