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Historical Event on 5/1/1992

Seperate secretariat was established for primary education.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/25/1999Baba Amte, a Gandhian and noted social worker, is chosen for the Gandhi Peace Prize.
7/16/1931C. T. Studd, 69, died. He was an English missionary, one of the 'Cambridge Seven,' who worked on the mission field in China, India and Central Africa.
8/2/1987Geet Sethi retains the World Amateur Billiards title.
5/10/1857India's real mutiny begins with the revolt of Sepoys of Meerut near Delhi the next day.
11/28/1962K. C. Dey, well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died.
4/27/1878Calcutta University started Women's Education, and allowed women to appear in the Entrance Examination.
12/12/1908Gaandhiji released from Volksrust Gaol. Indian National Congress adopts resolution on South Africa, criticizing the harsh, humiliating and cruel treatment to British Indians in South Africa as injurious to English Empire.
1/20/1999Renowned playwright Girish Karnad is selected for the 1998 Jnanpith Award.
2/14/1994The controversial Supreme Court Judge V.Ramaswami, who survived an impeachment motion in Parliament, retires.
12/11/1999Gopalakrishna Gandhi, former High Commissioner to South Africa, is conferred the honorary doctorate by the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.