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Historical Event on 5/5/1906
Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/10/1691 | Job Charnock established the first English factory in Calcutta. |
| 11/10/1922 | S. K. Raghunath Rao, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1960-67, was born in Karnataka. |
| 7/12/1909 | Vimal Rai, film producer and director, was born. |
| 9/4/1979 | India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429. |
| 8/9/1998 | India moves the World Trade Organisation against the European Union reimposing anti-dumping duties on unbleached cotton gray fabric imports. |
| 11/11/1996 | A.P. cyclone toll may cross 2,500. |
| 5/20/1992 | Third developmental launch of ASLV. Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C). Launched by third developmental flight of ASLV-D3. This carried Gamma Ray astronomy and aeronomy payload. |
| 4/6/1906 | Kaveri Bhaskar Karve, teacher and author, was born at Harnai, Ratnagiri, . |
| 5/15/1999 | Militants gun down Abdul Ahad Kar, a senior member of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly belonging to the ruling National Conference, in Kupwara district. |
| 6/28/1975 | Netherlands gives independence to Dutch Guyana, which becomes Suriname; one third of Hindus (descendants of Indian plantation workers) emigrate to Netherlands for better social and economic conditions. |
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