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Historical Event on 05/09/1540
Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary, soldier and freedom fighter, was born.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/29/1958 | Dhondo Keshav Karve, first social and educational reformer of Maharashtra, honoured by Bharat Ratna Award. |
| 10/1/1997 | Gul Mohammed (36), world's shortest man, died in New Delhi. Standing 56.16 cm tall, Mohammed entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. |
| 3/22/1991 | President withholds assent to the pension bill of Members of Parliament. |
| 5/13/1883 | Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies), was born. |
| 8/15/1997 | Freedom fighter's pension to be doubled from the existing Rs. 1,500. |
| 4/13/1940 | Najma Heptulla, Vice President of Rajya Sabha, was born. |
| 8/9/1902 | King Edward VII was crowned the emperor of Great Britain at Westminster Abbey after the death of his mother Queen Victoria. Earlier, he had held a grand function in which nearly 4,56,000 invitees celebrated this royal feast. |
| 10/28/1997 | Dr. V. Doreswamy Iyengar (77), Veena maestro, household name among Carnatic music lovers, passed away in Bangalore. |
| 8/13/1951 | First test flight of 'Hindustan Trainer-2' (H.T.2) which was indigenously designed and manufactured in India. |
| 5/2/1953 | 40 persons were reported losing their lives today in the first crash of a jet airliner in commercial service. The jetliner, a British-built Comet, plunged to earth in a violent storm just a few minutes after taking off from Calcutta. It was carrying a party of rubber and tin operators from Malaya to England. There were no survivors. Two Comets have crashed before, one last October and one in March, but neither was carrying passengers. |
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