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Historical Event on 5/1/1998
India and Peru sign agreements on space technology and agriculture during the visit of Indian President K. R. Narayanan there.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/17/1979 | Supreme Court stays the execution of all death sentences. |
| 12/23/1964 | India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. |
| 2/3/1954 | Over 350 Hindus trampled to death in a stampede at religious rites at New Delhi. |
| 8/1/1997 | Viswanathan Anand wins the Credit Suisse Masters chess tournament in Beil. |
| 5/5/1971 | India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi. |
| 10/3/1890 | Laxminarayan Sahu, litterateur, journalist and social reformer, was born. |
| 9/23/1967 | P. S. Vaidya, great Indian ODI pace bowler (1995-96), was born. |
| 12/28/1998 | India and Sri Lanka sign an agreement to establish a bilateral free trade area, after the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee, have sorted out the differences that held up the negotiations on it in the past. |
| 8/18/1990 | President R Venkataraman presented the colours to the Officers Training Academy in recognition of their services to the Nation. |
| 8/7/1999 | A. B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, appeals to the United States to name Pakistan as a terrorist state. |
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