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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 |
| 10/10/1999 | Congress-NCP talks still on forming a Government in Maharashtra. |
| 4/14/1991 | NF promises 5-10\% jobs to economically backward sections among the upper castes. |
| 9/13/1906 | Surendra Kumar Dey, social reformer and politician, was born at Sylhet (Bangladesh). |
| 12/28/1974 | Pandit Hiralal Shastri, great social worker, leader and first Chief Minister of Rajasthan State, died. |
| 1/1/1969 | B. Sivaraman was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 30-11-1970. |
| 6/2/1953 | Mountaineer Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and his Nepalese Sherpa guide Tensing became the first men to conquer Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The two reached the pinnacle of Everest, more than 29,000 feet above sea level, at 11.30 a.m. |
| 12/9/1658 | Dutch troops occupy harbour city Quilon (Coilan), India. |
| 12/3/1991 | An all-party delegation from Tamil Nadu led by CM Jayalalita urges the PM to gazette the interim award on Cauvery. |
| 2/25/1938 | Farokh Manekshaw Engineer, great Indian cricket wicket-keeper (1961-75), was born in Bombay. |
| 3/20/1926 | For the first time in the history of the competition, Scotland beats England for rugby's Calcutta Cup in London. |
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