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Historical Event on 5/5/1947

Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/22/1966U.S. announces allocation of 900,000 tons of grain to fight famine in India.
6/25/1900Louis Mountbatten, last British Voiceroy and first Governor General of independent India, was born at England.
3/6/1995Arun Tamhankar, great journalist, died.
9/30/1996Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lankan social scientist, received the Gandhi Peace Prize 1996.
6/5/1984Operation 'Blue Star' was launched by Indira Gandhi. Indian commandos stormed into Sikh's holiest gurudwara Golden Temple in Amritsar to flush out the terrorists and other anti-government elements. Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and over 325 people were killed in the temple. Thus a great rebel arose all over the nation and specially in Punjab.
10/20/1969Punjabrao Agriculture University established.
11/10/1991South Africa's first cricket One-day international since 1970 vs India.
1/14/1998Prof. Amartya Kumar Sen, Economist, is sworn in new Master of the Trinity College. He is the first Asian to head a Cambridge College.
3/14/1997Border Security Force discovers a 34-metre long tunnel in the Ajnala Sub-sector of the Punjab border with Pakistan.
12/10/1918Rowlatt Act introduced by Lord Chelmsford.