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Historical Event on 5/2/1926
Hindu women gain right to seek elected office.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/20/1993 | Government decides to form an Autonomous Council for the tribals within Assam to solve Bodo issue. |
| 1/23/1915 | Kamal Nayan Bajaj, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 5/25/1877 | Sir John Lawrence--passenger steamer of McLean & Co. of Calcutta--sank near the coastline of Orrisa in a storm. This ship carried 732 passengers. |
| 2/4/1948 | Rakeshchandra Satchidananda Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India v Sri Lanka 1982), was born in Kanpur. |
| 6/23/1980 | Sanjay Gandhi, great Indian politician and younger son of Indira Gandhi, died in a plane crash. He was recently appointed as the General Secretary of the AICC (I). |
| 6/1/1980 | AIADMK wins Tamil Nadu Assembly election; Congress (I) wins in U.P, M.P, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab, Maharashtra and Orissa. |
| 10/26/1937 | Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, famous music director, was born. |
| 2/21/1991 | Nutan, famous film actress, died at the age of 56 years. |
| 4/6/1980 | Janata Party splits again; members with RSS links form the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). A. B. Vajpayee becomes its first President. |
| 5/3/1962 | Hundreds of Muslims are killed in clashes with Hindus in West Bengal. |
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