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Historical Event on 9/5/1997
CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 4/2/1942 | Andaman Islands, U.S. Army Air Force Flying Fortresses, bomb the Japanese fleet. |
| 10/10/1977 | 61 people died in an accident between a passenger train and a freight train at Naini. |
| 2/19/1855 | U. V. Swaminathan Iyyer, mahamahopadhyay Tamil author, was born. |
| 7/31/2000 | The Lok Sabha passes by voice vote a bill for creation of Chhattisgarh state. |
| 4/5/1993 | K. Vijaya Bhaskara Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's CM, defeats TDP's Renuka Chowdhary by 31,611 votes in the Panyam Assembly election. |
| 9/12/1905 | Anglo-Japanese treaty provides for Japan to help safeguard India at London. |
| 3/21/1966 | Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-P3) placed into polar orbit. This carries remote sensing payload and an X-ray astronomy payload. Launched by third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D3) which is for launching 1,000-1,200 kg class of remote sensing satellites into polar sun-synchronous orbit. Still in service. |
| 8/4/1928 | Udham Singh, Indian field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1952, 56, 64), was born. |
| 8/5/1992 | The Supreme Court appoints a 3-member panel to visit Ayodhya and report on the new structures there. |
| 1/30/1994 | Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wickets. |
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