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Historical Event on 1/5/1998

60 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/8/1962Ravindra Bharti University established in West Bengal.
7/5/1992Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories.
7/25/1977Neelam Sanjiva Reddy became the sixth President of India. His held this office till July 25, 1982.
7/23/1918Saraswati Devi (Smt) Illindala, great Hindi writer, journalist and social worker, was born at Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh.
8/28/1906Chintamani Govind (Mama Pendse), great actor, was born.
3/21/1994Pakistan blocks access to Indian consulate in Karachi.
9/8/1962Chinese army infiltrated in the north-east border of India exceeding the Mac-Mahon line (Tibet-India boundary). This was the first ocassion of Chinese infiltration.
10/13/1991Captain Satish Sharma nominated to contest from Amethi.
12/10/1902Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria.
4/20/1914Gopinath Mahanti, famous Oriya novelist and Gyanpeeth awardee, was born.