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Historical Event on 5/7/2000
Ranjit Singh Gill, one of the prime accused in the murder of Lalit Maken and his wife Geetanjali, who was the daughter of the late President Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma, on July 31, 1985, was extradited to Delhi from the US to stand trial in the case.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/9/1963 | Saifuddin Azizuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter, President of Punjab and the first Indian to win the Lenin Award for International Peace, died. |
| 10/13/1991 | PM Rao leaves for Harare to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting. |
| 10/15/1921 | Gul Muhammad, cricketer (Indian & Pakistani batsman), was born in Lahore. |
| 7/23/1964 | Samrendranath Roy, great statistician, passed away. |
| 8/19/1994 | Rupee made fully convertible on current account. |
| 12/25/1924 | Atal Krishna Behari Bajpayee, Prime Minister of India and a veteran journalist, was born at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 6/23/1930 | The Simon Commission recommends a federal India and the separation of Burma at London. |
| 6/5/1929 | S.V. Subramanian, great Hindi writer, was born at Virakeralanpudur, Tamil Nadu. |
| 2/2/1835 | Thomas Babington Macaulay westernises education in India. English is made official government and court language and as medium of instruction. |
| 1/2/1959 | Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83), was born in Purnea, Bihar. |
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