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Historical Event on 5/5/1966
Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
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| 12/16/2000 | Indian Airlines wins the 60th National Hockey championship in Jammu. |
| 7/17/1996 | Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth. |
| 7/17/1996 | Sikh Guru Har Govindji, the sixth sikh guru, was born. He fashioned a military role for the Sikhs. |
| 2/15/2000 | K.R. Narayanan, President, presents Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 1998 to B.R. Chopra for his contribution to Indian cinema. |
| 1/16/1989 | Prem Nazir, famous actor of more than 620 Malayalam films, died at the age of 59 yrs. |
| 3/29/1939 | Hanumant Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India-century on debut), was born in Banswara. |
| 4/23/1929 | Ranjit Film Co. was founded by Chandulal Shah and Gohar at Bombay. |
| 5/27/1952 | United Nationalist Party and the Indian Democratic Party combined to form one opposition party - National Democratic Party with Dr. S. P. Mukherjee as leader. |
| 2/1/1894 | Chitravshastri, Marathi dictionary creator, was born. |
| 10/10/1977 | 61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini. |
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