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Historical Event on 5/9/1917
Fighting breaks out at Kharkwasta in the north-west frontier of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 8/27/1976 | Major-General (Kumari) Gertude Ali Ram, the first women General in Indian Army, was appointed as the first Director of Military Nursing Services at the Army Headquarters. |
| 2/10/1979 | Itanagar was declared as capital of Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 11/18/1960 | Raghunath Chaudhary, famous natural poet of Assam, passed away. |
| 6/22/1897 | The Chafekar brothers, Damodar and Balkrishna, shot British Officer Rand in Pune. This event played a very important role in the revolutionary freedom fighter. |
| 9/12/1899 | T. N. Swaminathan Pillai, master of Karnataka Classical Music, was born. |
| 4/2/1997 | Sumita Sinha of Dhanbad, (18 years college girl) became a world record holder when a 3,200 kg Ambassador car passed over her. |
| 7/2/2000 | At least 30 people had died after a boat collapsed in Kumla river near Pratapur in Madhubani district of Bihar. |
| 6/19/1999 | The ''people's bus'' from Calcutta rolls into Dhaka and is formally received by the Prime Minister and his Bangladesh counterpart. |
| 2/9/2000 | The Madras High Court suspends the one-year jail sentence passed by a Special Court against the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha, in the 'Pleasant Stay Hotel Case'. |
| 1/5/1893 | Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), universalist Hindu, great saint, social reformer, writer and litterateur was born at Gorakhpur. He was the renaissance founder of Self Realization Fellowship (1925) in US, author of famed 'Autobiography of a Yogi' (1946), popular book globalizing India's spiritual traditions. |
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