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Historical Event on 7/5/1997

Janata Dal splits. Laloo Prasad Yadav forms Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sharad Yadav was elected as the Janta Dal president.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/15/1997Orissa Janata Dal unit splits with 29 of 43 Legislature Party members forming 'Biju Janata Dal'.
2/1/1990Governors named for 14 states.
2/25/1963Nehru refuses to recognize China-Pakistan border pact in New Delhi.
5/8/1996The governing Congress party is routed in Indian elections that have left no party with a clear mandate to govern.
3/4/1990Congress (I) gains absolute majority in Arunachal Pradesh; Gegong Apang CM.
4/19/1976Maharshi Dayanand University established in Haryana.
3/30/1913B. S. Soman, first Admiral of India, was born.
11/24/1988Mizoram became the first Lok Sabha member.
5/26/1906Benjamin Peary Pal, internationally famous scientist of Indian agriculture, was born at Mukundpur, Punjab. In 1929, he went to Cambridge to do research on wheat and he returned to Burma with a Ph.D. five years later. In 1933, he got a research job with what is now known as the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi. In 1965, Pal became Director General of the newly founded Indian Council of Agricultural Research in New Delhi. He has written several books on roses, the most popular being ""The Rose in India"".
7/20/1829Jankibai passed away in jail.
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