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Historical Event on 1/5/1998
60 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/16/1997 | P. Sukumaran (50), Malayalam film actor, died in Kochi. |
| 6/4/1992 | Stock broker Harshad Mehta and his associates arrested. |
| 3/17/1943 | Indian troops retreat from Rathedaung to Buthidaung in the face of a renewed Japanese offensive on the Arakan front in Burma. |
| 12/16/1999 | Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin). |
| 11/27/1976 | Gajanan Tryambak Madkholkar, famous journalist, novelist and critic, passed away. |
| 10/16/1936 | 35 killed in Hindu-Muslim riots at Bombay. |
| 9/24/1629 | Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies. |
| 8/20/1917 | Declaration of historic 'Mongegue'. |
| 1/12/1863 | Swami Vivekananda (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta)(1863-1902), dynamic renaissance missionary to West, catalyst of Hindu revival in India and social reformer, was born at Calcutta. |
| 3/27/1989 | T. N. Seshan was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 23-12-1989. |
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