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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 |
| 9/23/1980 | Indira Gandhi gains power to imprison without trial. |
| 4/12/1799 | The Church Missionary Society was organized in London under the original name of the Society for Missions in Africa and the East. This Anglican missions agency currently works in fields located in Africa, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, Iran and Palestine. |
| 2/20/1968 | First Edition of 'Amrit Bazar Patrika' weekly was published in Bengali language. |
| 5/25/1991 | Indian, UN Angola Verification Mission - I ended (UNAVEM - I June 1989 - May 1991). |
| 1/29/1983 | Indira Gandhi names 12 new ministers as Cabinet resigns. |
| 12/16/1922 | Parvati Devi, orator, was arrested for delivering revolutionary speeches in meetings at Hapud and Merrut. She was the first Indian women to get two years long imprisionment during the freedom struggle. |
| 8/3/1930 | Vyanktesh Bapuji Ketkar, famous astrologist and researcher, died. |
| 5/2/1921 | Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''. |
| 7/7/1962 | 94 people died in an Italian DC-8 air crash near Bombay. |
| 10/15/1899 | Menka (Lady Lila Sokhi), famous Indian dancer, was born. |
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