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Historical Event on 7/5/1916

Archik Venkatesh Gopalkrishna, great poet, journalist and orator, was born at Dharwar, Mysore.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/28/1989Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was disqualified from Rajya Sabha. It was the first case of such disqualification from the House under anti-defection law.
3/16/1999The Shiromani Akali Dal creates a record by unanimously electing Bibi Jagir Kaur Begowal as the first woman president of the SGPC.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
10/15/1996H.D. Deve Gowda, Prime Minister, launched the concluding ceremony of the 85th year of ICMR at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. He also gave away the ICMR Prizes and Awards (1994-95) to outstanding bio-medical scientists of India.
12/14/1962Bharathi Arun, cricketer (Indian pace bowler late-80's), was born in Vijayawada.
6/23/1993Motilal Vohra made governor of UP.
3/28/1990Bengal beat Delhi in rained-out cricket Ranji Trophy final on quotient.
5/26/2000In a significant development, the Government decides to allow disinvestment up to 60 per cent equity of Air India.
5/26/2000Guru Arjun Dev, Sikh Guru, was born.
12/4/1998Sonia Gandhi said the Congress(I) was prepared to meet the challenge of contesting a mid-term poll if it was forced on the country. But it would not take any initiative to pull down the BJP-led coalition.