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Historical Event on 5/2/1953
40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/5/1922 | Pandita Ramabai, social worker and philosophist, passed away. |
| 5/6/1993 | Violence in Orissa state secretariat, CM manhandled. |
| 2/18/1836 | Swami Ramakrishna Paramahansa(1836-86), was born early morning in Kamarpukur village in Hooghly district, West Bengal. His real name was Gadadhar Chatterji. He was God-intoxicated Bengali Shakta saint, Guru of Swami Vivekananda. He exemplified the bhakti dimension of 'Shakta Universalism'. |
| 9/17/1997 | Advance railway reservation period extended from 30 to 60 days w.e.f. February 01, 1998. |
| 5/5/1966 | Jan Congress Party was established in Orissa. |
| 2/22/1977 | Emergency and 'MISSA' laws were cancelled. |
| 10/2/1910 | D. Arkasomayaji, educationist, was born at Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 4/29/1979 | Raja Mahendra Pratap, great revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away in New Delhi at the age of 93. |
| 8/20/1955 | Jawaharlal Nehru breaks off relations with the Portuguese after the invasion of Goa by Indian nationalists. |
| 10/3/1913 | Sudangsu Abinash Banerjee, 'Montu', cricketer, (5 wickets, 1 test vs West Indies) was born in Calcutta. |
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