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Historical Event on 9/5/1987

Shanbagh, Vandana Rao, Shiny and Usha sets record in the women's category for 4x400m race in 3.31.55 seconds at Rome .

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/12/1993Police firing at 15 places in Bombay; four foreign militants arrested.
7/25/1929Somnath Chatterjee, politician and lawyer, was born.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
9/30/1990Former Dy PM Devilal submits his letter of resignation.
4/25/1998India protests against Pakistan raising the Kashmir issue at the first SAARC Information Ministers conference in Dhaka.
4/25/1998Shahjahan, great mughal emperor of India, was born at Lahore.
10/1/1993Two more Election Commissioners appointed.
3/24/1995Devchand Somaiyya, famous Table Tennis player, passed away.
10/2/1942Menka Devi, freedom fighter, was arrested by the police when she and her friends were carrying out Gandhi Jayanti procession. She was tortured with cigar butts and the administration set her house on fire.
10/9/2000The Reserve Bank of India issued bank notes in the denomination of Rs.1000 in the Mahatma Gandhi series bearing the leader's portrait in the watermark and signature of Dr. Bimal Jalan, Governor of the RBI. The length of the note is 177 mm and the width is 73 mm. The notes are printed in a combination of offset and intaglio processes. This is the first note with intaglio printing on it.