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Historical Event on 9/5/1998
Trishul and Akash test fired from Chandipore.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/20/1932 | Bipinchandra Ramchandra Pal, powerful journalist and revolutionary freedom fighter, passed away. He was amongst the trio which was known as ""Lal - Bal - Pal"" during the freedom struggle. He started a newspaper called ""Swaraj"" for the Indians in England. He also edited several other newspapers like ""Tribune"", ""New India"", ""Vande Mataram"", ""Swaraj"", ""Hindu Review"", ""Democrat"", ""Independent Bengali"", etc. |
| 1/26/1996 | 47th Republic Day celebrated;Chief Guest was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil. |
| 8/1/1939 | Bombay begins Prohibition, first since U.S. law was repealed. |
| 8/6/1962 | Peking agrees to talks with India to settle border disputes. |
| 3/31/1935 | 374 infants wed at a mass ceremony. |
| 3/31/1935 | Badauni Abdul Kadir, famous Muslim historian, was born. |
| 5/20/1900 | Sumitranandan Pant was born. |
| 6/2/1992 | The government accepts all the 15 recommendations of the Janakiraman Committee which unearthed massive collusion of banks in the security scam. |
| 2/12/1985 | Fire aboard M.V. Chidambaram, an Indian liner sailing from Singapore to Madras, killed 34 people. |
| 7/17/1996 | Madras to be known as 'Chennai' henceforth. |
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