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Historical Event on 5/5/1944

Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/12/2000T. S. Krishna Murthy is appointed Election Commissioner in place of G.V.G. Krishnamoorthy who retired.
5/2/1996Controversial godman Chandraswami arrested and sent to high security Tihar jail on a day's judicial custody by a Delhi court for allegedly cheating NRI businessman Lakhubhai Pathak of $1 lakh in 1983.
6/5/1995A three-week long, the first ever Indo-US joint army training exercise begins.
9/24/1914Janardan Swami was born.
5/12/1952Washington welcomes its first female ambassador, India's Shrimati Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
6/24/1897Padmashree Pandit Omkarnath Thakur, famous music director of Gwalior Gharana, was born at Gujrat.
8/29/1905Major Dhyanchand was born in a Rajput family at Prayag at Uttar Pradesh. He is remembered as a Master of Hockey. India celebrates this day as National Sports Day.
7/5/1946Ram Vilas Jamun Paswan was born in Shaharbanni, Distt. Khagaria (Bihar).
5/28/1903Shantanu L. Kirloskar, great industrialist, was born at Sholapur (Maharashtra).
9/2/1993Vice Admiral V.S. Shekhawat appointed new naval chief.