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Historical Event on 5/7/1985

Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/11/1994The Supreme Court upholds sacking of BJP Governments; Balasaheb Deoras quits as RSS Chief; Rajendra Singh alias Rajju Bhaiya to succeed.
9/7/1998Swami Ranganathananda is elected the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Order.
9/20/1942Kanak Lata Barua, a yound child who tried to host the national flag at Goupur police station in Assam with the help of 500 people, was shot by the police station incharge.
5/28/1996BJP Govt. incapable of assembling a majority after two weeks. A left-wing coalition takes over headed by new prime minister H. D. Deve Gowda, Janata Dal leader and United Front coalition government. He held this office till 12 April 1997.
9/24/1629Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies.
10/4/1999Rest of India won the Zal Irani Trophy in Bangalore.
12/24/1880Pattabhi Sitaramayya, politician and president of Indian National Congress, was born in Andhra Pradesh.
5/31/1970Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to.
6/9/1992Rajesh Khanna (Congress-I) defeats Shatrughan Sinha to wrest the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat from the BJP.
12/1/1989National Front decides to form a government with outside support from the BJP and the Left Parties.