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Historical Event on 5/9/1995

Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/15/1991Import curbs on capital goods relaxed.
12/4/1993Bahadur Prasad wins the second gold medal in 5000 m in Asian Track and Field meet in Manila.
9/22/2000Kerala High Court suspends the sentence awarded by the Kottayam Special Court on 32 accused in the Suryanelli rape case.
6/5/1879Narayan Malhar Joshi, father of Labour Union Movement in India, was born at Goregaon in the Kolaba district, Maharashtra.
1/9/1922Har Gobind Khurana, scientist of Biology, was born in India. He did his M.Sc from University of Punjab and, for higher education went to University of Liverpool. In 1959, he produced a chemical called ""Coenzymea"", which is essential for certain processes in the human body. He was awarded Nobel Prize for medicine in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Halley.
6/14/1929Jatindra Nath Das was arrested in Calcutta.
9/26/1956Laxmanrao Kirloskar, great social reformer, industrialist, patriot and founder of the Kirloskar Industries, passed away at the age of 88.
2/21/1991Nutan, famous film actress, died at the age of 56 years.
10/12/1860Sir Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, passed away at the age of 73.
10/12/1860Humayun reconquered Delhi after defeating Sher - Shar Alias Sikandar Suri in Machiwara and Sarhind battles. It is said that he won the crown but not the empire.