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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 |
| 3/9/1931 | The Tories decide not to attend future round table talks on India in London. |
| 12/23/1954 | Tito, Nehru reject plan for neutral third bloc, yet insist on peaceful co-existence. |
| 3/3/1707 | Shehejade Muajjam declared himself as the successor of Aurangzeb and renamed himself Bahadurshah First. |
| 12/7/1989 | Hemananda Biswal sworn in as Orissa Chief Minister. |
| 10/10/1927 | Bansilal, leader of Lokdal Party, was born |
| 10/16/1878 | Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala. |
| 10/25/1990 | Captain Sangma, first Chief Minister of Meghalaya, died. |
| 11/30/1994 | Laxmi Menon, former Foreign state minister, died. |
| 8/16/2000 | Rangarajan Kumaramangalam, Union Power Minister, goes into a coma after multiple organ failure. |
| 8/16/2000 | Amir Timur left Delhi. He took the title 'Emperor of India' and recrossed the Indus on March 11. |
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