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Historical Event on 1/5/1992
Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st cricket Test wkt.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/3/1931 | Yashwant Dinkar Phadke, great critic of literature, was born. |
| 7/16/1969 | Air Chief Marshal Pratap Chandra Lal, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, DFC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 15/01/1973. |
| 5/12/1952 | Washington welcomes its first female ambassador, India's Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. |
| 6/17/1947 | Burma was adopted as republic by constitution assembly. |
| 4/13/1984 | Kerala Government drops Silent Valley Project and declares the entire area a national park. |
| 5/5/1992 | Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched. |
| 8/3/1998 | India's most sophisticated medium range surface-to-air missile ''Akash'' was test-fired from the interim test range at Chandipur-on-sea. |
| 12/20/1866 | Panchkadi Banerjee, famous journalist and editor, was born. |
| 4/30/1870 | Dadasaheb Phalke alias Dhundiraj Gobind Phalke was born at Trymbakeshwar near Nasik, Maharashtra. He is remembered as the 'Father of Indian Cinema'. He produced India's first feature Film, 'Raja Harishchandra' and founded Phalke & Co. at Bombay. He was a director, producer, writer, editor & laboratorian, portrait photographer and also a scene-painter. |
| 7/9/1993 | Passport fees raised from Rs. 60 to Rs.300. |
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