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Historical Event on 5/5/1992

Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/26/1983R. V. Marathe, father of Postal Index, passed away.
7/22/1991New industrial policy for liberalisation of economies announced in Parliament.
3/22/1938IRFA was registered as a local body not administered by the Government on March 22, 1938 under the Government of India Act No. XXI of 1860.
5/25/1894Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away.
8/26/1914Bengali revolutionaries looted 46,000 bullet ammunition and pistols from Calcutta Port for their revolutionary activities.
9/29/1755Robert Lord Clive founded the British empire in India
8/21/1997Krishan Kant assumes office as tenth Vice President of India.
5/15/1999The BJP and at least 13 of its allies rename themselves the National Democratic Alliance.
4/27/1920Dr. Manibhai Desai, great Gandhian leader and Magssese Awardee, was born.
12/1/1999Indira Gandhi, former Prime Minister, is named ""`Woman of the Millennium'' in a BBC pol