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Historical Event on 1/5/1998

60 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/6/1955Vinayak Maharaj Masurkar, great Samarth Saint, died.
12/10/1905Robert Koch received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on Tuberculosis.
3/16/1995K. Karunakaran resigns as CM of Kerala; Finance Minister presents Central Budget.
7/18/1993India beats France 3-2 in a sensational Davis Cup tie to enter into the semi-final.
12/16/1999Likhiram Karve, Madhya Pradesh's Minister for Transport, is hacked to death by naxalites.
1/14/1990India and Maldives scrap visas.
10/2/1906Raja Ravi Verma died at Attingal near Trivandrum, Kerala. He is remembered for his artistic work in 'Ram Panchayatan', 'Vishwamitra-Menaka', 'Shakuntala writing a letter', 'Shiv Parvati'. A commemorative stamp was issued by the Postal Department on April 29, 1971 in his honour.
7/3/1972Shimla Non-Arm Agreement on Kashmir signed between Indira Gandhi and Z. A. Bhutto.
1/2/1987Dr. Harekrushna Mahtab, great industrialist, leader and former Chief Minister of Orissa, died.
2/19/1919Arvind Gokhle, great Marathi story writer, was born.