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Historical Event on 5/1/1997

Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/29/2000India loses to Britain in the play off for the fifth and sixth places in the hockey match at the Sydney Olympics.
9/29/2000Humayun died at Delhi. Two days earlier he had slipped on the staircase of a library being constructed at the Old Fort.
11/20/1998Dr. Mohammed Yunus, Chairman of the Grameen Bank of Dhaka, is selected for the 1998 Indira Gandhi prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
11/1/1858Her Majesty Queen Victoria was no longer amused with the Company's loss of control, and India came directly under the Crown of 'Princes, Chiefs and People of India'. Britain Government took over administrative powers from East India Company to rule India.
12/31/1738Lord Charles Cornvalis, Governor General of India (1786-1793), was born.
6/29/1991A 32-member Left Front cabinet led by Jyoti Basu sworn in in West Bengal.
4/20/2000A full bench of the Madras High Court quashes the Tamil Nadu Government order making Tamil (or mother tongue) as the compulsory medium of instruction in all schools in the State up to Standard V.
11/11/1994The Supreme Court stays Karnataka Reservation Act.
7/17/1935Dr. Ram Babu Gupta, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1986-89, was born at Delhi.
1/16/1999Ritwick Bhattacharya (Delhi) and Mekhala Subedar (Maharashtra) won the men's and women's titles in the National squash championship in Calcutta.