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Historical Event on 5/1/1997
Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/22/1751 | Battle of Mandavgargh. |
| 12/4/2000 | India deports TULF functionary-turned LTTE supporter M.K. Eelavendhan, a Chennai resident for over a decade. |
| 5/11/1970 | A bill for setting up of ""North Eastern Council"" passed. |
| 7/31/1658 | Aurangzeb appoints himself Mongol emperor. |
| 6/10/1928 | Papan Ramchand Panjabi, cricket test umpire for 7 tests from 1978-81, was born in Mumbai. |
| 3/3/1924 | Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim. |
| 10/2/1952 | Community Development Programme started. |
| 12/16/1999 | Michael Johnson's 400m world record (43.18s) set up in the Seville World championship was ratified by IAAF. Other records also ratified were Kenyan Noah Ngeny's 1000m mark (2 11.96, Reiti, Italy) and Moroccan Hicham el Guerrouj's 2000m (4 44.79, Berlin). |
| 6/18/1996 | CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam. |
| 10/25/1971 | National Science and Technology Committee established. |
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