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Historical Event on 5/1/1996
International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/24/1997 | Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance. |
| 5/3/1947 | Indian National Trade Union Congress Intak was established. |
| 9/3/1906 | Prithviraj Kapoor, veteran film actor, was born in Peshawar. His first film was 'Challenge' (1929). He is the founder of Prithvi Theatre in Bombay. He is remembered for his immortal role of Akbar is film 'Mugul-E-Azam'. |
| 7/20/1905 | First Partition of Bengal, which was proposed by Lord Curzon, was accepted by British Government's Minister of India. |
| 3/10/1969 | Parliament passed the Act that made Central Industrial Security Force as an Armed Force of the union. |
| 3/10/1969 | Saint Francis Xavier, Jesuit priest, Spanish missionary teaching in India and Japan, was born in the Spanish kingdom of Navarre. |
| 4/2/1902 | Gulam Ali Khan Ustad Bade was born. |
| 4/2/1902 | Qutubu'd-din Aibak (1206-1210) was crowned at Lahore after the death of Muhammad of Ghuri. He was originally a slave of Turkestan. As he started his career as a slave, the dynasty founded by him in India is known as ""Slave Dynasty"". The construction of Qutabminar was started during his regime. Since he was very generous, the people called him ""Lakh Baksh"". |
| 2/25/1992 | Railway budget proposes 20\% hike in upper class passenger fares. |
| 11/13/1917 | Vasantrao Banduji Patil, former Chief Minister of Maharashtra, was born. |
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