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Historical Event on 5/7/1985
Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/25/1979 | Commercial Unity Day started. |
| 4/14/1988 | Ashok Kumar, actor, recieved the Dada Saheb Phalke Award. |
| 7/11/1957 | Aga Sultan Sir Muhammad (1877-1957), Aga Khan III, spritual leader of Ismaeli Muhammedans, passed away. He worked for Britian in the WW I & II. Aga Khan was extremly rich, he once had himself weighed against a sack of diamonds belonging to him. He was also one among those who formed the Muslim League. |
| 2/25/1927 | Balkrishna Buwa Echalkaranjikar, father of `Khyal Gayaki', passed away. |
| 12/9/1977 | Ravishankar Mahashankar Rawal, famous painter, passed away. |
| 6/3/1993 | K N Venkatasubramanian,IOC Chairman, suspended for leaking information about oil purchase plans to international dealers. |
| 7/17/1987 | V. P. Singh announces resignation from Congress; R. Venkataraman elected President of India. |
| 11/19/1962 | Nehru asks more US aid as China drives into India in New Delhi. |
| 5/16/1986 | V. Shantaram, 75, was chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke award. |
| 3/2/1996 | Malabar University (Kerala) comes into being. |
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