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Historical Event on 5/1/1996

International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/2/1961Prof M S Thacker, DG-CSIR, laid the foundation stone for the wind tunnel complex.
1/14/1843Fakir Mohan Senapati, great writer and nationalist, was born.
7/31/1946Jinnah threatens sanctions of ""Direct Action"".
3/10/1995ONGC's oil rig that blew out ( January 8 ) at Pasalapudi site near Amalapuram (Andhra Pradesh) put out after 62 days.
5/30/196269 killed in a bus crash near Ahmedabad.
8/20/1917Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'.
9/2/1984Thousands of Sikhs rally at Golden Temple to protest govt. occupation in Amritsar.
2/14/1996Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.
1/26/1995Three powerful bombs rip through a celebration at a sports stadium in Kashmir as the State Governor addresses the crowd;7 people killed and 47 injured.
7/15/1917Tukaram Tanaji Sawant, educationist and famous Hindi writer, was born at Pokharam, (Maharashtra).