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Historical Event on 5/2/1953
40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
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| 4/28/1943 | Netaji Subash Chandra Bose aligned the Japanese-German submarine at Medagaskar. |
| 7/21/1993 | Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal. |
| 7/21/1993 | Vasco-de-Gama was the Last Viceroy of Portuguese, who ruled India. |
| 4/24/1942 | Shri Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor, passed away at the age of 41. |
| 4/24/1942 | Saint Gyaneshwar passed away. (Samadhee). |
| 3/12/1996 | Last session of the 10th Lok Sabha ends. |
| 3/28/1947 | Abdul Bari, labour leader, passed away. |
| 11/18/1991 | In the by-elections, Congress gets 8 Lok Sabha seats and suffers rout in UP assembly, while BJP gets absolute majority. |
| 7/30/1883 | Badridas Goenka, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 1/20/1993 | Bindeshwari Dube, former Chief Minister Bihar, passed away. |
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