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Historical Event on 11/5/1956
University Grants Commission Act sets up UGC.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/13/1998 | Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah beating Zimbabwe in the final. |
| 7/31/1996 | Supreme Court exempts Rao from appearing in CMM court personally. |
| 2/1/1967 | Victor Paramjyoti, famous Indian music director, composer and critic, passed away. |
| 11/7/1862 | Bahadurshah Jafar -II died at Rangoon in British prision. |
| 8/16/1980 | Communal riots continue; death toll in Uttar Pradesh City hits 130. |
| 6/11/1984 | 574 Sikh army deserters arrested. |
| 11/13/1917 | Gajanan Madhav, famous modern Hindi poet, critic and storywriter, was born. |
| 12/29/1949 | Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani, cricketer (Indian keeper after Engineer), was born in Madras. |
| 9/26/1977 | Uday Shankar (Chowdhury), producer and director of dance-based film 'Kalpana', passed away. He was the elder brother of Pandit Ravishankar. His main achievement was the blending of the Indian classical style with the Western Ballet and various folk dances. |
| 2/22/1858 | Gannau resident of Samosa Gali in Delhi, arrested for revolutionary activities, was hanged. |
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