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Historical Event on 5/2/1996
Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/2/1930 | Gandhiji addresses letter to Viceroy intimating his intention to break Salt Law if Congress demands are not conceded. |
| 1/17/1771 | Govind Patwardhan Mirajkar, first Rao of Peshwai, passed away. |
| 6/6/1909 | Morappakam Joysam Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34), was born in Maduranthakam, Madras. |
| 3/1/1901 | Vaidya Jogeshchandra Banerjee was born. |
| 10/11/1994 | Molly Chacko at Hiroshima sets record for 3000m (Women) in 9.06.42. |
| 8/29/1612 | Battle at Surat in India; English fleet beats Portuguese. |
| 6/1/1959 | The Chinese occupy Tibet and Dalai Lama flees to India. |
| 3/21/1994 | Pakistan blocks access to Indian consulate in Karachi. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
| 2/25/1910 | Dalai Lama, Tibeten monk, flees from Chinese troops and takes refuge in India. |
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