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Historical Event on 5/2/1974

700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/1/1997Over 23,000 blowdowns completed in 1.2 m tunnel.
7/2/2000At least 30 people had died after a boat collapsed in Kumla river near Pratapur in Madhubani district of Bihar.
3/26/1969Romesh Chandra, secretary general of the World Peace Council, receives the Lenin prize
12/28/1974Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first Chief Minister of Rajasthan State, died.
1/1/1926Mohammad Abdul Hye, educationist, was born at Alitangani, (Nowgong).
4/23/1795East India Company gave Warren Hastings a grant of the money and he was honourably acquitted of the charges.
8/3/1939Apoorva Kumar Sengupta, cricketer (1959 Test - India vs WI, without distinction), was born in Lucknow.
5/15/1958Aruna Asaf Ali became the Mayor of Delhi.
2/11/1996Wills World Cup Cricket inaugurated at Calcutta.
1/6/1832Publication of 'Darpan' magazine started.