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Historical Event on 6/5/1997
I. K. Gujral's visit to Nepal was marked by signing of Power Trade Agreement and MoU on civil aviation.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/9/1854 | Govind Vasudev Kanitkar, noted poem writier, novelist and translator, was born. |
| 6/23/1993 | RBI cuts minimum lending rate by 1%. |
| 9/5/1957 | Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha. |
| 9/29/1914 | Japanese vessel 'Kamagata Maru' reached Baj Baj near Calcutta from Vancouver carrying Indian revolutionaries. |
| 4/5/1989 | Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died. |
| 11/3/1986 | Dr. Indrachandra Shastri, versatile in Sanskrit and Pali, died. |
| 1/18/1936 | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), famous English writer and author, died in Burwash, England at 70. He was a young journalist in British India. He wrote in verses, stories, novels childen's stories some of these were ""The Jungle Book, Kim and Just-50 stories"" and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 for 'Kim' (Indian based story). |
| 8/14/1896 | Gandhiji published ""The Green Pamphlet"" at Rajkot and then toured to Bombay, Madras, Poona and Calcutta educating Indians in regard to grievances of South African Indians. |
| 2/8/1994 | Gopalrao Deuskar, internationally famed painter, passed away. |
| 7/13/1995 | Devyani Chaubal, film journalist, passed away. |
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