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Historical Event on 5/7/1985

Adoor Gopalakrishnan adjudged Best Director (Mukhamukham) in national film awards.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/11/1998The Punjab police unearth a plot to kill Prime Minister I. K. Gujral, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, and Congress(I) leader Sonia Gandhi by a pro-Khalistan militant group.
7/31/1974B. S. Chawla was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He headed this office till 15-08-1974.
1/12/1918C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar), famous film music director, was born.
8/10/1901Narayan Pillai Gopala Pillai, great poet and educationist, was born in Quilon, Kerala.
7/1/1984Ravishankar Maharaj, freedom fighter and national leader of the country, died at the age of 101.
3/9/1997Bezawada Gopala Reddy, 89, former Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, died.
4/11/1992Marathi cinema's Bhaichandra Govind Pendharkar gets Phalke Award.
1/9/1935Savita Jajodiya, famous Marathi writer, was born.
4/14/1963Maha Pandit Rahul Sanskrityayan, great Hindi writer, politician and professor, passed away at Darjeeling.
4/17/1945Gandhiji, in a statement regarding the ensuing San Francisco Conference, says that 'peace is impossible without equality and freedom of India'. Also demands a just peace for Germany and Japan.