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Historical Event on 5/5/1992
Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/20/1873 | Young Men Christian Association of India was established in Calcutta. |
| 11/16/1887 | Padmacharan Patnaik, famous Orria poet, was born. |
| 7/16/1959 | Suhridkumar Roy, famous geologist, died. |
| 4/30/1909 | Kirpal Prem Nath, educationist, was born at Moga (Punjab). |
| 4/30/1909 | Battle of Krisna was fought between two villages Rakshasi and Tangadi. |
| 4/30/1909 | Acharya Surdasji, famous poet in Hindi and great devotee of Lord Krishna, was born. |
| 11/15/1991 | Import curbs on capital goods relaxed. |
| 5/11/1999 | Centre removes the West Bengal Governor A. R. Kidwai. The Arunachal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad had also been asked to step down. |
| 9/3/1997 | Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court directs the state government to pay an ex-gratia of Rs. 50,000 to the family of a college student, who had committed suicide following ragging in the hostel. |
| 5/31/1970 | Indira Gandhi called for international help as the civil war in Bangladesh, or East Pakistan, had turned two million people into refugees. Many of them were suffering from cholera and smallpox. The authorities of West Pakistan refused to care for them, and India couldn't afford to. |
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