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Events for May 5

5-May-1479	Sikh Guru Amardasji, great social worker and teacher, was born at Basare village near Amritsar district.
5-May-1818	Karl Marx, great journalist, chief editor, writer and social worker, was born at Trier, Germany.
5-May-1903	Former minister William Petty declares Persian Gulf a part of British dominion in India.
5-May-1903	Tirupur Subramaniam Avinashilingam Chettiar, freedom fighter, educationist and politician, was born at Tirupur (Tamil Nadu).
5-May-1906	Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.
5-May-1916	Giani Zail Singh, President of India, was born in Sandhwan village, Punjab.
5-May-1929	Curfew was imposed in a bid to quell Hindu-Muslim riots that had claimed 21 lives in Bombay.
5-May-1930	Gandhiji was arrested and imprisoned without trial. As a result there was ''hartal'' (strike)all over India. Over 100,000 people were jailed before the end of the year.
5-May-1932	Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, famous Bengali short story writer and novelist, passed away.
5-May-1942	Henry Albert John Gidney, great leader and politician, died at New Delhi.
5-May-1944	Gandhi-Jinnah talks break down on Pakistan issue.
5-May-1946	Simla Conference in session from May 5 to May 12; Gandhiji's deliberations prove anfractuous.
5-May-1947	Gandhiji denies in an interview that communal division of India is inevitable.
5-May-1955	Indian parliament accept Hindu divorce.
5-May-1966	Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa.
5-May-1971	India appeals for urgent aid for 1.8 mil. for Bangladeshi refugees in New Delhi.
5-May-1972	Loknathan P. S., great economist, passed away.
5-May-1977	Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party.
5-May-1983	Keshavrao Kothavle 'Lalit', editor of monthly magzine, passed away.
5-May-1986	Controversial Muslim Women Bill passed by Lok Sabha.
5-May-1989	Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away.
5-May-1992	Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched.
5-May-1993	Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], famous Indian guru, passed away at 73 yrs.
5-May-1994	Revolt against Nar Bahadur Bhandari government in Sikkim, Sanchaman Limboo elected new leader.
5-May-1998	Yashwant Sinha and Madan Lal Khurana, Union Ministers, are discharged in the hawala case.
5-May-2000	Supreme Court permits former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha (petitioner) to have herself and the others examined as ''defence witnesses'' in connection with the trial of the 'Colour TV scam case.'