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Historical Event on 1/5/1988

India's first indigenously built 'Braille' script released short hand machine for the blind.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/28/1962US pledges to rush arms to India.
9/9/1952Kishorlal Ghanshamlal Mashruwala, great thinker and philosopher of Gandhi era, passed away.
1/26/1957Shivlal Nandlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87), was born in Hyderabad.
8/2/1993CEC Seshan postpones all elections including by-elections to December in protest against the government's attempt to subjugate the Commission.
8/22/1987Aircraft carrier ship of Indian Navy 'Virat' joined in fleet.
2/13/1936Dinsha Wachha, great Industrialist and social worker, passed away at Mumbai.
9/24/1921Dr. Sakharam Gangadhar Malshe, researcher and critic, was born.
7/31/1993Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command.
10/9/1968Olympic Games open in Mexico City.
10/16/1878Vallathol Narayana Menon, great freedom fighter, poet and writer, was born at Chennara village in Kerala.