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Historical Event on 1/5/1995

Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/13/1998India and Germany sign an agreement on promoting and protecting investment in Bonn.
12/25/1943Japanese bombers raid Chittagong.
11/29/1869Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar (Thakkar Bappa), social reformer of Gujrat and right hand of Gandhiji in socially segregated Harijans, was born at Bhavnagar, Saurashtra.
4/16/1962Third Lok Sabha constituted after the third general election in India. J. L. Nehru forms the third Congress ministry.
5/5/1916Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab.
2/14/1996Supreme Court orders CBI probe into a housing scam in which 8,700 govt. houses were allotted out-of-turn.
4/6/1773James Mill of Scotland, great philosopher and historian (British India), was born.
1/18/1959Miss Meera Behn, follower of Gandhi, left India for good.
6/29/1757Mir Zafar was installed on the throne as the Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Orrisa from Murshidabad.
6/1/1972Space Commission and Department of Space was set up. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) brought under Department of Space (DOS).