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Historical Event on 5/5/1906

Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/2/1992Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.
4/6/1966Mihir Sen, first Indian swimmer to achieve many remarkable feats, swam across the 'Palk Strait' measuring 22 kms between India & Sri Lanka (Cylone).
3/1/1993India develops Phased Array Radars critical for its ""Akash"" surface-to-air missile and launches its indigenous main battle tank 'Arjun'.
12/17/1991Narasimhan committee on Monetary Reforms recommends that there should not be any further nationalisation of banks. Loan-melas assailed.
8/13/1998India signs two agreements with the World Bank for concessional credit through the International Development Association for $115.4 million.
10/27/1999P.M. Sayeed of the Congress(I) re-elected as the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
1/29/1996S.R. Bommai was replaced by Laloo Prasad Yadav as Janata Dal president.
6/4/1953University of Cambridge confers honorary Doctorate of Laws on J. L. Nehru.
5/1/199560 killed as Madras-Kanyakumari Express collides with a goods train at Danishpet.
11/17/1925Jemini Ganesh, film actor, was born.