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Historical Event on 5/7/1950

81 people died in a rail crash at Patna. A sabotage was suspected.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/7/1961Govind Ballabh Pant passed away. He had served eight years as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He was bestowed with Bharat Ratna in 1959.
4/23/1938Viceroy Lord Linlithgow opens the hydro-electric scheme at Malakand.
1/22/1996Janata Dal parliamentary party leader Sharad Yadav resigns from Lok Sabha membership (Jain hawala case).
10/18/1983Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer 55 Tests for India, 3208 runs @ 39.12, died.
2/13/1970Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48 people at a village 80-km from New Delhi.
12/20/1957Kalinga Prize for 1957 awarded to Lord Bertrand Russell.
12/12/1872Balkrishna Shivram Munje, freedom fighting leader and president of Hindu Mahasabha, was born.
6/26/1983Five hundred killed or missing as monsoon floods hit the Indian state of Gujarat.
3/21/1993The 68 km Mangalore-Udupi stretch of the west coast Konkan rail line opened by the PM.
3/1/1919Mahatma Gandhi announced his desire to start 'Satyagraha' against proposed Rowlatt Act meant to curb civil and political liberties.