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Historical Event on 5/5/1944

Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/12/1958Satyajit Ray gets the award for best direction at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
2/3/1928Simon Commission comes to India under Lord Irwin, after which serious rioting started on his arrival.
3/17/1995Congress-I in Arunachal Pradesh wins two-third majority.
12/17/1990N. Janardhan Reddy sworn in as CM of Andhra Pradesh.
1/5/1890Ganendra Mohan Tagore died.
4/23/2000Mumbai regains Ranji Trophy.
1/26/1993Sub Lt. Rubi Singh of the Navy becomes the first woman in India to lead an armed force contingent in the Republic Day parade at New Delhi; British PM John Major attends as the first ever British head of Government as Chief Guest.
1/5/1995Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief.
7/24/1783Simon Bolivar, great dynamic leader and social reformer, was born at Carcas.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding