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Today In Indian History - Historical Events of India
| Date | Event Name |
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Saint Chokhoba passed away. |
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Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary, soldier and freedom fighter, was born. |
| 5/9/1753 |
Maharaja Surajmal attack on Delhi. |
| 5/9/1866 |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, freedom fighter and political leader, was born in Kotluk village of Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. |
| 5/9/1874 |
First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai. |
| 5/9/1907 |
Two thousand dacoits riot in eastern Bengal. |
| 5/9/1908 |
Arkalgudun Krishnarao, Kannad writer, was born. |
| 5/9/1917 |
Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India. |
| 5/9/1919 |
Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi. |
| 5/9/1933 |
Gandhiji announced suspension of Civil Disobedience Movement for six weeks and called on the Government to withdraw its Ordinances. |
| 5/9/1959 |
Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil, founder of Rayat Educational Institute, passed away. |
| 5/9/1981 |
Pandit Sundarlal, great revolutionary and writer of 'Bharat Mein Angreji Raj', passed away. |
| 5/9/1981 |
Durga Bai Deshmukh passed away at Hyderabad. She was a social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian. She worked for peace, social welfare and for betterment of the downtrodden. |
| 5/9/1992 |
Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns. |
| 5/9/1992 |
Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant. |
| 5/9/1992 |
M. J. Pherwani, National Housing Bank Chairman, resigns following his bank's involvement in the Security scandal. |
| 5/9/1993 |
S. Mulgaokar, 82, journalist, passed away. |
| 5/9/1995 |
Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt. |
| 5/9/1995 |
Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast. |
| 5/9/1995 |
Abha Gandhi, servant to Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. He was 68 years. |
| 5/9/1996 |
LDF wins 80 sets and UDF 59 in Kerala elections . |
| 5/9/1996 |
Kerala CM A.K. Antony resigns. |
| 5/9/1996 |
J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns. |
| 5/9/1997 |
Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar. |
| 5/9/1997 |
At least 71 persons were killed and nine injured when a truck carrying a marriage party plunges into gorge near Gasota in Hamerpur district of Himachal Pradesh. |
| 5/9/1998 |
Kirit Raval is appointed Solicitor-General of India. |
| 5/9/1998 |
Playback singer Talat Mehmood, 75, passed away in Mumbai. |
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| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/1/1961 | First passenger Plane flight AVRO HS748. |
| 6/20/1997 | Basu Bhattacharya (65), film-maker, died in Mumbai. |
| 11/5/1999 | The CBI arrests the Bihar Road Construction Minister Illiyas Hussain and conducts raids in the Bitumen scam case. |
| 7/10/1997 | Malleswari earns India's first gold medal in Asian weightlifting championship in Beijing. |
| 5/2/1998 | The Indian Army at Bandipura market captured 10.5 Kg Charas. |
| 12/8/1985 | The first summit was held at Dhaka. (7 0r 8). |
| 5/26/1906 | Benjamin 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"". |
| 2/5/1924 | Gandhiji was released after operated on for appendicitis in Sassoon Hospital, Poona. |
| 12/31/1923 | Vishnu Dayal Jhunjhunwala, great industrialist, was born at Kanpur. |
| 10/25/1971 | National Science and Technology Committee established. |
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