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Historical Event on 5/1/1983

Amravati University established.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/6/1997Five killed and 17 injured in a bus explosion in Gurdaspur district of Punjab.
2/8/1912Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away.
9/3/1953Laxmanrao Parvatkar (Khaprumama), famous Tabla player, passed away.
5/6/199712 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.
6/3/1890Khan Abdul Gafar Khan, follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was born.
3/29/1999A massive earthquake in the Garhwal region of Uttar Pradesh in the inner Himalayas claims 85 lives and more than 130 injured.
4/22/1998India and Bangladesh resolve to work together to ''root out terrorism'', push bilateral trade and harness river waters of the region.
6/18/1974Govinddas Seth, Hindi litterateur and politician, died.
6/17/1991Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous) (1875-1950).