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Historical Event on 11/5/1915
Balasaheb Devras, sar sanghchalak of RSS, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/23/1975 | P. S. Bapat, victoria cross winner Lieutenant General, passed away. |
| 7/25/1986 | Sikh extremist kill 16 Hindus in Muhktsar India. |
| 11/1/1932 | Anadi Sankar Gupta, great educationist, was born at Goila, Bangladesh. |
| 6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 6/16/1993 | Harshad Mehta accuses PM of taking Rs. 1 crore payoff from him in November 1991; Rao terms it malicious and unfounded. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 11/17/1948 | Despite the scepticism on the part of the US and British advisers concerning the feasibility of the scheme, the first half-dozen HAL-reconditioned B-24s were ready by November 1948 and, on the 17th of that month, No. 5 Squadron was formed with these heavy bombers. |
| 5/29/1933 | Gandhi ends his 21-day fast, his second for the cause of the 'untouchables'. |
| 12/3/1970 | Rajendra Agriculture University established at Bihar. |
| 12/3/1970 | Akbar removed 'Jeziya' or toll-tax for his non-Muslim subjects. |
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