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Historical Event on 5/9/1992
Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/24/1950 | G.J.M.Gazdar, computational linguist, was born. |
| 9/12/1998 | Bihar flood toll mounts to 320. |
| 3/19/1911 | Santosh Kumar Ganguly, cricket test empire and 10 test 1955-65, was born in Bengal. He also played Hockey and Football. He is the aurthor of ""Manual of Cricket Umpires"" and ""Technique of Umpiring Hockey"". |
| 4/1/1962 | Metric weights became compulsory as New Weights and Measurements Metric system was intoduced by Indian Government. |
| 4/2/1970 | Privy purses and special privileges of former Indian rulers abolished. |
| 4/21/1991 | Hastmalji Maharaj, Jainbhumi parampujya, passed away. |
| 10/3/1903 | Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationist, was born. |
| 7/7/1937 | Jagdish Prasad Goenka, great industrialist, was born in Calcutta. |
| 2/28/1918 | Srinivas Ramanujan, famous Indian scientist, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. |
| 10/6/1935 | Jeevan D. Ghosh, cricket Test umpire from 1978-91, was born in Bengal. He has the distinction of having the longest umpiring career of 32 years in India. |
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