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Historical Event on 1/5/1995
Jitendra Prasad succeeds N.D. Tiwari as UPCC-I chief.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/14/1929 | Devendra Lal was born in Varanasi. He made extensive studies of meteorites of Lunar rocks brought by the Apollo and Luna Missions and of material from the Ocean bed. He also evolved techniques to understand post events in the solar system from cosmic ray ""Signatures"". One of his most significant findings is that the intensity of cosmic rays during the last few million years has been the same as it is today. He was a geophysicist associated with the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. |
| 6/17/1917 | Krishan Kumar Chopra, medical practitioner and social worker, was born at Lahore. |
| 4/6/1993 | Divya Bharati, famous Hindi film actress (Deewana), died at the age of 19. |
| 6/22/1994 | Law for the betterment of women introduced. |
| 6/30/1997 | Joginder Singh, CBI Director, was given marching orders bringing his 11-month-old controversial tenure to sudden end. R. C. Sharma, Special Director, took over. |
| 2/18/1918 | Gopal Krishna Adig, modern Kannad poet, was born. |
| 8/25/1919 | Bindeshwari Prasad Mandal, former Chief Minister of Bihar and President of Mandal Commission, was born. |
| 2/5/1981 | Kuda Bux, great Indian mystic (I'd Like to See), passed away at 75. |
| 2/12/1993 | Kapil Dev crosses 400 wickets and 5000 runs in test cricket. |
| 8/18/1923 | Sadashiv ""Sadu"" Ganpatrao Shinde, cricketer (Indian leg-spinner during the late 1940's and early 1950's), was born in Bombay. |
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