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Historical Event on 5/5/1947

Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/7/1937Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta.
4/13/1889Balkrishna A. Pillai, litterateur and journalist, was born.
7/3/1948H. M. S. Auchils was taken over by Indian Navy.
4/10/1982Mahatma Gandhi Road Bridge at Patna started by Indira Gandhi.
7/11/1997Ten persons were killed as police opened fire on Dalit mob which attacked vehicles in protest against desecration of Ambedkar bust in Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar in north-east Mumbai.
8/27/1978Lord Mountbatten died in an explosion near Ireland.
3/12/1612Usman Khan Lohani, son of Isa Khan, was defeated in the battle of Nekujyal. He died as the last independent ruler of Bengal.
10/3/1978Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay claimed the credit of India's first and the birth of world's second test-tube baby Durga Agrawal, who was born in Belle Vue Nursing Home in Calcutta.
6/7/1997Mahesh Bhupathi becomes the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title when he and Japan's Rika Hiraki claim the mixed doubles.
2/5/1986Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.