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Historical Event on 5/5/1966

Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/17/1987Tata Football Academy was opened in Tatanagar.
12/19/1945Gandhiji lays foundation stone of C. F. Andrews' Memorial Hospital at Santiniketan.
11/27/1778Joseph Lin flew upto 2,286 meters high with the help of a baloon.
11/3/1991India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested.
4/17/1945Gandhiji, in a statement regarding the ensuing San Francisco Conference, says that 'peace is impossible without equality and freedom of India'. Also demands a just peace for Germany and Japan.
7/29/1994Opposition stalls parliament proceedings over the 'Action Taken Report' on JPC finding.
2/11/1818Britishers captured the 'Ajinkyatara' fort which belonged to the Marathas.
5/4/1989Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, passed away.
10/22/1764The Battle of Buxar was fought between armies of Mir Qasim, the Nawab of Bengal; the Nawab of Awadh; and the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and British East India Company led by Hector Munro.
11/24/1999India finish with 10 gold, eight silver and seven bronze medals in the Commonwealth shooting championship which ended in Auckland.