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Historical Event on 5/3/1945

Hurricane-equipped squadrons played a major role in the Arakan offensive which began in December 1944, disrupting the enemy's lines of communication and constantly harrying the Japanese forces until victory was achieved with the re-occupation of Rangoon.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/18/1944Azad Hind Fauj entered India (Japanese army) from the border of Burma and invaded north eastern India.
1/29/1780Hicky's Bengal Gazette, the first news paper in India, was published in English in Calcutta .
8/21/1997Government extends the provision of the payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 to all those societies and trusts which employed 10 or more people.
11/15/1989Test debut of Sachin Tendulkar and Waqar Yunus at Karachi.
10/1/1997Parliamentarian and All-India Forward Bloc general secretary, Chitta Basu died during his journey by Howrah-bound Danaput Express from Patna. He was 72.
5/5/1947Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
11/30/1858Jagdish Chandra Bose, botonist and physics expert, was born at Mymensingh (now in Bangladesh).
4/17/1996Indian Railways bars AIDS patients from using trains.
1/20/1997The third Test between India and South Africa ends in a draw in Johannesburg.
12/8/1980Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev visits New Delhi.