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Historical Event on 5/1/1997
Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/2/1929 | Mahatma Gandhi made the Navjivan publication a charitable trust |
| 11/11/1947 | Temple of Vithoba in Pandharpur opened for Harijans. Ganpatrao Tapase was the first harijan to enter the temple. |
| 3/9/1997 | Mumbai takes Wills Trophy in Mohali. |
| 7/16/1959 | Suhridkumar Roy, famous geologist, died. |
| 8/28/1904 | First car rally between Calcutta to Barakpur held. |
| 1/29/1780 | Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta . |
| 5/8/1930 | Gandhi followers mob Bombay to protest his arrest. |
| 6/11/1946 | Viceroy interviewed Gandhiji, and mooted proposal of Coalition Government at Centre. |
| 1/30/1999 | Pandit Ravi Shankar, sitar maestro, is chosen for Bharat Ratna. |
| 10/6/1999 | Sonia Gandhi, Congress(I) president, won the Bellary Lok Sabha seat defeating her BJP rival Sushma Swaraj by a margin of 56,100 votes. |
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