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Historical Event on 7/5/1917

'Hindumashinary Society' was established by Gajanan Bhaskar Vaidya.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/20/1965Under the leadership of Commander M. S. Kohli, Indian Trackers concurred Mount Everest. Captain A. S. Chima and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first to reach the summit.
6/30/1995CNN launches a 24-hour news channel in partnership with Doordarshan.
3/25/1963Yagyawalk Bharadwaj, famous botany scientist, passed away.
1/1/1988The Officers Training School (OTS) was re-christened as Officers Training Academy. Besides training Indian nationals, 74 cadets from Sri Lanka have also been trained at the OTA.
1/8/1947Rajasthan University established at Jaipur.
6/28/1928Baburao Sadvelkar, famous painter, was born.
1/3/1975Lalit Narayan Mishra, great freedom fighter, politician, leader, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of Railways, died at a Railway Hospital in Danapur due to a bomb blast at Samastipur Railway Station a day earlier.
7/21/1977Neelam Sanjiva Reddi was elected as the President of India.
6/16/1998Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister, meets her Indian couterpart A B Vajpayee in New Delhi.
7/29/1891Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, great Indian educationist, social reformer, litterateur and Hindi writer, passed away in Calcutta.