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Historical Event on 5/5/1906

Ursula Jeans, actress (I Lived With You, Over the Moon), was born in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/18/1974First underground Atomic device explosion for India was carried out successfully near Pokhran in Rajasthan (Thar Desert) at 8:05 a.m. This event made India as the 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1/11/1958Two lakh Indians in East Pakistan were rounded up and lodged in concentration camps.
10/16/1922M.V. Desai, social reformer and journalist, was born.
12/13/2000All 12 battalions of the Manipur Rifles Personnel strike from work.
2/27/1931Chandrashekhar Azad of Hindustan Republican Army shot himself to avoid British police arrest at Alfred Park, Allahabad.
2/20/1929K. B. Ramaswamy, cricket test umpire for 8 tests from 1976-84, was born at Tamil Nadu.
8/15/1950Indian Constitution goes into effect.
11/15/1932Surinder Kumar Mehra, Air Chief Marshal, was born in Delhi
4/14/1990L. P. Poarbosa sworn in as CM of Goa.
2/28/1900Kondedera Madappa Kariappa, first General of independent India, was born.