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Historical Event on 5/6/1952
Maria Montessori, pioneer in mordern education, who spent almost 10 years in India, died in Noordwijk aan Zee. The principles and techiques advocated by her are also applied to the education of handicapped children and adult education.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/2/1997 | Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India. |
| 10/5/1993 | CBI chargesheeted 40 in Ayodhya case. Advani, Joshi and Bal Thackeray were among the accused. |
| 5/28/1883 | Vinayak Damodar Savarkar ""Veer Savarkar"", great freedom fighter, social reformer, politician and writer, was born at Bhagur village near Nasik. |
| 11/16/1991 | 60 percent of the 23 million voters exercise their franchise in the by-elections to 15 Lok Sahba and 56 Assembly seats in 14 states. |
| 6/1/1927 | Justice Savyasachi Mukherjee was born. |
| 4/15/1932 | Suresh Shridhar Bhat, famous poet, was born. |
| 11/30/1990 | Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas takes over as Chief of Naval Staff. |
| 2/5/2000 | A.B. Vajpayee, Prime Minister, defends the Gujarat Government's order lifting the ban on Government employees from participating in RSS activities. |
| 8/15/1994 | Sukumar Gupta, a socialist, dies. |
| 1/22/1996 | Janata Dal parliamentary party leader Sharad Yadav resigns from Lok Sabha membership (Jain hawala case). |
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