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Historical Event on 5/6/2000
Saurav Ganguly wins the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award 1999-2000.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/31/1988 | Treaty signed between India and Pakistan for not to target nuclear sites of each other. |
| 8/16/1980 | Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130. |
| 2/11/1847 | Thomas Alva Edison, great scientist and inventor of electric light lamp, was born at Milan, Ohio. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 4/5/1957 | The first Communist ministry in a state was installed in Kerala. |
| 5/19/1982 | Elections for Assemblies held in West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala. |
| 3/22/1885 | Gulam Yazdani, great archaeologist and critic, was born. |
| 4/11/1964 | Communist Party of India was divided in two parts. Firstly known as Communist Party of India [CPI], its second fragmentation was named as Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)]. This division was on ideological differences at the international level. |
| 7/4/1902 | Swami Vivekanand (Narendra Vishwanath Dutta), Indian religious leader and social reformer, died at Memorial Rock, KanyaKumari. His brilliant career came to a sudden end only at the age of 39. |
| 6/9/1986 | First AIDS death reported from a private hospital in Mumbai. |
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