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Historical Event on 5/2/1974
700 union leaders arrested in a move to avert a rail strike in New Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/6/1937 | Baldev Singh, Chahal campaigner, was born. |
| 6/17/1903 | Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born. |
| 1/19/1985 | Dr. P. C. Alexander, principal secretary to the PM, quits following the arrest of three aides in an espionage case. |
| 5/21/1935 | Quetta earthquake takes a heavy toll of life. |
| 10/15/1686 | Aurangzeb attacked and conqured Bijapur and this was the end of the Muslim Adilshahi's era. |
| 12/7/2000 | A five-member ULFA group guns down 26 non-Assamese people, mostly Hindi and Bengali-speaking, at Sonpura near Arunachal Pradesh Border in Upper Assam. |
| 10/26/1890 | Martyr Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was born at Allahabad. He was also the editor of revolutionary weekly 'Pratap'. |
| 7/13/1907 | Hari Vishnu Kamat, great politician, was born. |
| 7/20/1969 | M. Hidayatullah became the first acting President of India. |
| 9/9/1920 | Anglo Oriental College of Aligargh became Aligarh Muslim University. It was the first university to use the regional language. |
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