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Historical Event on 5/5/1994

Revolt against Nar Bahadur Bhandari government in Sikkim, Sanchaman Limboo elected new leader.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/30/1863Naval Force East India Comapny was merged with the British Naval Fleet.
10/5/1957Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City.
3/13/1996Wills World Cup Cricket semi final (India vs Sri Lanka) at Calcutta abandoned due to unruly crowd behaviour. Sri Lanka enters final.
9/7/1887Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Gopinath Kaviraj, editor and master, was born at Dhamrai in Dhaka now in Bangladesh.
11/10/1922S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka.
2/10/1930Shrikant Kirloskar, director of 'Kirloskar Udyog Samuh', was born.
2/24/1867Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born.
1/12/2000Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000.
5/20/1915Gandhiji founded Satyagraha Ashram (later known as Sabarmati Ashram after the name of the river) at Ahmedabad.
11/18/1955Nicolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev, top USSR Soviet leaders, first time came to New Delhi.