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Historical Event on 5/1/1996
Ban imposed (through a Delhi high court judgment) on the film 'Bandit Queen', based on the life of Phoolan Devi, lifted by Supreme Court.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/6/1995 | Prabhakar Barve,painter of international fame, passed away. |
| 2/13/1970 | Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi. |
| 7/14/1854 | Mahendranath Gupt, follower of Ramkrishna Paramahans, was born. |
| 7/31/1946 | Jinnah threatens sanctions of ""Direct Action"". |
| 1/15/1934 | Nearly 20,000 lives were claimed in a tremendous earthquake measured 8.4 on the Ricther Scale, in Bihar and parts of Nepal. Munger City was completely destroyed. |
| 5/27/1930 | India's major cities are seething with unrest following the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and thousands of his followers in the campaign of civil disobedience against British rule. Civil unrest in Bombay, where at least six were killed and sixty injured. |
| 9/1/1942 | Rasbihari Bose established the Indian National Army. |
| 1/9/1854 | Govind Vasudev Kanitkar, noted poem writier, novelist and translator, was born. |
| 1/9/1854 | Sultan Ghiyasu'd-din Tughluq Shah, emperor of Delhi, passed away. |
| 3/31/1980 | Nirmal Mukherjee, the last Indian Civil Service Officer, retired from service as Cabinet Secretary. |
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