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Historical Event on 5/3/1896
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, great nationalist, lawyer, freedom fighter, barrister and member of the Rajya Sabha, was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/8/1894 | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, famous novelist and writer of national song 'Vande Mataram', died at the age of 55. Some of his writings are 'Anandmath' and 'Kapal Kundala'. |
| 12/6/1892 | Rukmini Lakshmipathi, great social reformer and leader, was born at Madurai. |
| 6/8/1992 | Assets of 31 persons including Harshad Mehta attached. |
| 12/11/1958 | Wilson Jones became India's first individual World Champion when he won the Amateur Billiards Championship. |
| 1/26/2000 | Mr. K. Vadivel Raj gets the 1999 Kabir Puraskar for rescuing 11 persons of another community during caste violence in September 1998 in a village in Tamil Nadu. |
| 11/11/1999 | Mr. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, leaves for Durban summit of the Commonhealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM). |
| 7/23/2000 | Ram Jethmalani, Union Law Minister, quits the Cabinet after the Prime Minister shows him the door following the outbursts against the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A. S. Anand. |
| 1/23/1961 | Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films. |
| 3/20/1997 | Greek instrumental composer Yanni Chryssomallis's 'Freedom Concert' held at the Taj, Agra. |
| 5/25/1886 | Rash Behari Basu, great revolutionary, freedom fighter, social reformer and leader, was born at Palara Bighati village, West Bengal. |
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