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Historical Event on 1/5/1994
Jnanpith Award for Oriya Poet Sitakant Mahapatra.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/25/1856 | Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians. |
| 1/8/1908 | Mary Nadia Wadia (Fearless Nadia), great actress, was born. |
| 4/14/1995 | India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah. |
| 6/19/1947 | Salman Rushdie, English writer, was born in Bombay. |
| 9/2/1992 | Shripad Deshpande, senior journalist, passed away. |
| 8/18/1969 | Humayun Kabir, great politician, died. |
| 3/26/1996 | The 3-day old Hazratbal shrine crisis ends, as the militants holed up in the shrine come out of it. |
| 8/9/1996 | Unofficial estimates put black money in the country at Rs. 70,000 crore, i.e. 6\% of GDP. |
| 5/2/1982 | Mohun Bagan retains Federation Cup (football) beating Mafatlal at Calicut. |
| 6/17/1996 | Balasahab Devras, Sarsangha Chalak of Rashtriya Sawyamsewak Sangh, died. |
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