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Historical Event on 5/1/1987
The Bofors Deal.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/8/1990 | Mother Teresa re-elected head of Missionaries of Charity. |
| 11/9/1909 | The Times reports failure of Gandhi Government negotiations on Transvaal laws. |
| 9/4/1984 | Air Chief Marshal L. M. Katre, PVSM, AVSM and Bar, became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 01/07/1985. |
| 1/10/1996 | Centre sets up Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission. |
| 6/15/1988 | Dalai Lama recoganised the rights of China in foreign affairs and Army Operations in Tibet region. |
| 2/5/1968 | Narottam Nagar, veteran hindi writer, passed away. |
| 7/21/1977 | Bhudevchandra Basu, famous animal expert, passed away. |
| 2/27/1854 | Lord Dalhousie captured Jhansi under the East India Company. |
| 4/14/1963 | Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling. |
| 2/14/1989 | Supreme Court orders Union Carbide Coporation of USA and Union Carbide India Limited to pay $470 millions (about Rs. 710 crores) in full and final settlement of all claims out of the Bhopal gas Disaster Litigation tragedy of 1985. |
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