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Historical Event on 5/1/1994

Political party Shiromani Akali Dal was established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/13/1999Atal Krishna Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister of India.
2/20/1950Sarat Chandra Bose, freedom fighter, journalist, leader and elder brother of Subhashchandra Bose, passed away.
2/19/1911Merle Oberon, film actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), was born in Calcutta, India.
4/2/1980S. S. Grewal was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-04-1981.
6/17/1913Waman Vasudev Chitle (Bal Chitle), Marathi story writer and editor, was born.
9/10/1920Subramhanyam Bharti, national poet in Tamil language, orator, author, editor, philosopher and revolutionary, passed away.
6/5/1998Ali Sardar Jafri, Urdu writer, is presented the Jnanpeeth award for 1997.
10/28/1964Padmabhushan Vaikunthbhai Mehta, famous Gandhian leader, passed away.
12/14/1953Vijay Amritraj, great Indian tennis player and actor (Octopussy), was born.
2/14/2000The Supreme Court stays the Karnataka High Court judgment quashing the State Government's Ashraya scheme for providing plots to the poor.