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Historical Event on 5/2/1977
C.V. Narasimhan became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 25/11/77).
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/14/1996 | Competition Post Card', a new category of postcard, priced Rs. 2 introduced. |
| 3/22/1907 | Perturbed by a new law restricting Asiatic immigrants, Mohandas Gandhi, a young Indian attorney now living in South Africa, organized a campaign of civil disobedience to resist the statute popular bill passed by the new Boer government of the Transvaal Colony. The Asiatic Registration Bill was considered by Gandhi unjust and discriminatory to the large Chinese and Indian populations. However, the government expressed the belief that the ordinance was popular. ""Over 90 percent of the white people thoroughly approve of it,"" said Sir Gilbert Parker, a Conservative member of Parliament. |
| 6/18/1996 | CBI arrests Sanjeeva Rao, relative of Narasimha Rao, and Prakash Yadav, son of former Union Minister, in the urea scam. |
| 2/5/1992 | D.D. Lapang takes over as the new CM of Meghalaya. |
| 6/18/1943 | British Field Marshal Archibald Wavell becomes Viceroy of India. |
| 7/20/1990 | GOI notifies restrictions on liberal import policy announced earlier. The restrictions will cut the import bill by about Rs. 1000 crore. |
| 2/4/1924 | Kocheril Raman Narayan, ninth Vice President of India and now president of India, was born. |
| 7/17/1992 | Lok Sabha rejects no-trust motion. |
| 12/23/1912 | Rash Behari Ghosh and Sachin Sanyal threw a bomb at Viceroy Lord Hardinge II in Delhi. He had come to Delhi on an elephant for the initiation of the new capital. The Viceroy was injured in the bomb blast. |
| 6/27/2000 | The Clinton administration rejects a demand by 21 U.S. Congressmen for declaring India a terrorist state in the wake of attacks on Christian priests and churches. |
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