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Historical Event on 5/1/1973

All non-fuel Coal Mines fields were nationalised.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/3/2000National Cricket Academy (NCA) wins the MRF Buchi Babu Cricket tournament in Chennai.
12/15/1976Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit
5/27/1997Sri Lanka claims Independence Cup, winning the second match in the best-of-three finals in Calcutta.
11/18/1997School bus plunges into the Yamuna killing 28 Delhi children.
2/28/1712Bahadur Shah I died at Lahore at the age of 72 in the war of succession.
3/29/1970Union Government revises the percentage of reservation in service for SC\STs from 12.5\% to 15\%. Orders to be effective from 25 March.
3/29/1970Sher Shah Sur died. He was fatally wounded in an explosion on Kalanjara fort while preparing for an attack. He introduced the new silver rupee-coin ""Rupiya"" based on ratio of 40 copper coin pieces (paisa) per rupee and built several roads including the longest road of India known as Grand Trunk Road (now Natioinal Highway-2).
3/8/1986L.K. Advani elected President of BJP.
3/7/1647Guru Dadaji Konddev, master of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.
5/24/1956Gautam Buddha's 2500th birth anniversary was celebrated.