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Historical Event on 5/2/1953
Declaration by the PM that India was opposed to joining any power-block in the event of another war.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/12/1984 | Rajiv Gandhi elected Congress (I) President. |
| 3/1/1993 | India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'. |
| 8/2/1980 | Ramshankar Baij, great sculptor, died. |
| 10/4/1857 | Shyamji Krishna Varma, freedom fighter, nationalist and patriot, was born at Mandvi village, Gujarat. |
| 7/1/1947 | Sharad NandKishore Yadav was born in Babai, Distt. Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh). |
| 9/4/1987 | Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old girl, commits Sati (burning herself in her husband's funeral pyre) in Deorala in Rajasthan. |
| 3/29/1869 | Sir Edwin Lutyens, Builder of Rashtrapati Bhavan and England's most outstanding architect of his time, was born. |
| 4/27/1942 | Gandhi condemns stationing of U.S. troops in India. |
| 11/2/1984 | Violence following Indira Gandhi's assassination takes heavy toll. |
| 9/4/1999 | Umesh Chandra, Assistant Inspector General of Police, shot dead by the PWG in Hyderabad. |
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