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Historical Event on 5/9/1874

First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/2/1997Screening for Hepatitis C made mandatory all over India.
9/30/1908Ram Dhari Singh Dinkar, famous Hindi novelist, was born.
10/19/1983Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
10/24/1955Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra.
6/24/1990Defence scientists successfully test fired country's first third generation anti-tank missile 'NAG'.
8/14/1998Classical vocalist Shamshad Begum, who enthralled radio listeners in the 30s and 40s, died in Mumbai.
1/5/199860 are killed as the Bareilly-Varanasi passenger train rammed the Kashi Viswanath Express near Hardoiin, Uttar Pradesh.
4/18/2000The Board of Control for Cricket in India adopts a six-point code of conduct for the players.
5/13/1994Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament.
9/24/1998In his address to the UN General Assembly, PM Vajpayee said that India wouldl not come in the way of implementing CTBT and may sign it conditionally by September 1999.