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Historical Event on 5/1/1997
Abhijit Kunte wins National `A' chess championshop for men.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/1/1997 | Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul. |
| 3/9/1897 | Fans start calling the team 'Indians' (in 1915 it became official). |
| 10/10/1909 | Nagarwala Noshirvan Dorab, cricket umpire of five Tests, was born in Maharashtra. |
| 9/8/1951 | The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad. |
| 4/10/1997 | Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world. |
| 4/4/1889 | Makhanlal Chaturvedi, famous Hindi poet, writer, Hindi litterateur and President of All India, was born in Babai village, Madhya Pradesh. |
| 5/1/1879 | Swami Vivekanand established Ramkrishna Mission. |
| 12/28/2000 | The Kanchi Acharya presents the Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati national eminence awards to former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, Smt. M.S. Subbulakshmi (in absentia), scientist Ramnarayan Agarwal and pravachan artist Rameshbhai Ojha. |
| 1/20/1993 | Captain Karamjeet Singh, first Pramveer Chakra Awardee, passed away. |
| 9/5/1998 | University and college teachers affiliated to the All-India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations call off their nation-wide strike. |
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