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Historical Event on 5/1/1972
All fuel coal mines were nationalised.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/21/1933 | Annie Besant, great social worker and founder of Home Rule Movement, passed away. |
| 4/1/1954 | French settlements in India pass under Indian control. |
| 10/3/1977 | Indira Gandhi arrested on charges of official corruption in New Delhi. |
| 7/31/1992 | Thailand Airlines crashed in Himalayan Range, 113 persons died. |
| 5/8/1996 | The governing Congress party is routed in Indian elections that have left no party with a clear mandate to govern. |
| 10/1/1981 | Activists of the Dal Khalsa, who masterminded the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane. arrested. |
| 9/4/1927 | World fliers reach Karachi, India. |
| 9/19/2000 | Gopi Chand of India falls to Henderawan of Indonesia in the quarter-finals of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
| 1/20/1871 | Sir Ratanji Jamshedji Tata, famous Indian industrialist, was born. |
| 10/6/1974 | Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great freedom fighter, barrister, leader, politician, nationalist and member of the Lok Sabha, passed away. He resigned as the defence minister soon after the Chinese aggression. |
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