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Historical Event on 5/7/1973
The foundation stone was laid of Itanagar, the new capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/19/1936 | Satydev Dubey, stage artist, was born. |
| 8/1/2000 | The Lok Sabha adopts Uttar Pradesh State Reorganisation Bill paving the way for the creation of Uttaranchal the 27th State. |
| 5/12/1949 | S Vijaya Laxmi Pandit, first woman foreign ambassador, was received in US. |
| 7/16/1969 | Morarji Desai resigns from cabinet. |
| 1/24/1976 | Burmah Shell, a private oil company, was nationalised and renamed as Bharat Refineries. |
| 11/19/1838 | Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-84), nationalist leader of Bengal, was born in Calcutta. He was one of the first Indians to sow the seeds of secularism in the country. He joined the Brahmo Samaj in 1857 but seperated from it in 1866 and founded Brahma Samaj of India, a radical offshoot of the Adi Brahmo Samaj. |
| 5/29/1968 | Dara Singh becomes the world wrestling champion. |
| 5/29/1968 | Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre. |
| 11/20/1969 | The Union Home Ministry decides to reserve posts for SC\STs in the public sector undertakings. |
| 3/12/1944 | No. 7 Squadron, which had flown its Vengeances on some missions against dissident tribesmen in North Waziristan, started operations in the Arakan from an airstrip at Uderbund near Kumbigram. |
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