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Historical Event on 5/2/1985

Banarsidas Chaturvedi, famous writer and journalist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/25/1971Himachal Pradesh becomes a full-fledged 18th Indian Union state.
2/9/1951The first census of free India of enumeration work was started.
7/3/1998Kavi Pradeep, Hindi film lyricist, is selected for the 1997 Dada Saheb Phalke award.
7/21/1993Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal.
6/18/1995The latest deaths in northern India's hottest weather this century bring the death toll to 525 as temperatures hit 113¦F (45¦C) in New Delhi.
9/29/1992Forex norms relaxed for wide range of purposes.
8/13/1997The contentious women's reservation bill put on the back burner with PM Gujral saying govt. would not push through such a major social legislation until there was a consensus on it.
7/16/1991Railway budget hikes passenger fares by 15-20\% and freight up by 10\%.
4/19/1996AIDS deleted from the list of contagious diseases in the Railway Act of 1989.
7/8/1958Lord Canning declared that since peace was established, it is better known as end of Indian Mutiny, 1857.