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Historical Event on 9/5/1997

Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/7/1997Jaspal Rana bags six gold medals in the men's standard pistol and air pistol and set two more records on the penultimate day of the National shooting.
3/22/1964200 die in communal violence in the industrial towns of Jamshedpur and Rourkela.
5/29/1982Naval Academy at Ezhimala, Kerala, was approved by Union Cabinet.
3/23/199710 Dalits killed in Kab village of Bihar by Ranbir Sena, a pro-landlord extremist organisation.
8/2/198432 people died in a bomb explosion at Meenambakkam Airport.
3/20/1997Greek instrumental composer Yanni Chryssomallis's 'Freedom Concert' held at the Taj, Agra.
2/19/1994IRBM Agni Missile test fired successfully for the third time.
3/1/1987A Pakistani official quoted as saying, ""Pakistan has nuclear bomb capabilities at New Delhi"".
5/10/198559 were killed and 150 wounded in Sikh attacks.
10/27/1907Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay died.