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Historical Event on 7/5/1997
Janata Dal splits. Laloo Prasad Yadav forms Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sharad Yadav was elected as the Janta Dal president.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/12/1934 | Shantakumar Jagannath Sharma was born in Garhjamula, Distt. Kangra (Himachal Pradesh). |
| 1/4/1932 | Mahatma Gandhi and other members of his All-India National Congress are back in jail again. After the collapse of the London conference, British authorities cracked down even harder on Gandhi and his followers, and the Mahatma urged Indians to increase their acts of civil disobedience. ""Wake up from sleep,"" Gandhi said as he ordered a boycott of British goods. ""Discard foreign cloth. Discard narcotics. Discard violence. Defy all orders calculated to crush the national spirit."" The government declared Gandhi's Congress an illegal organization. Under new laws, even peaceful picketing is illegal. The Congress party responded to the crackdown by recruiting more followers and striking more plants. |
| 7/25/1992 | K. Madhavan, CBI Jt. Director looking into the security scam, resigns. |
| 12/17/1645 | Noorjahan Begum passed away. |
| 10/27/1982 | Gandhiji's personal secretary Pyare Lal died. |
| 9/16/1997 | Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet. |
| 12/20/1990 | Supreme Court stays Delhi High Court judge Justice Chawla's orders on the Bofors issue. |
| 9/30/1894 | Rangnath Ramchandra Diwakar, Gandhian leader, was born. |
| 5/9/1992 | Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant. |
| 5/15/1873 | The proposal to dissolve East India Company was passed in England. |
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