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Historical Event on 6/5/1997

Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.

Other Historical Dates and Events
6/19/2000Salgocar wins the Pondicherry Millennium All India Football tournament in Pondicherry.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
3/20/1993Memon brothers, the prime suspects in the Bombay bomb blasts, escape from Dubai.
10/26/1999India is re-elected to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
4/26/1973Judge A.N. Ray became the Chief Justice of India. He helded this office till 28/01/1977.
1/31/1995ISRO and Intelsat sign a $100 m 10-year-long agreement for leasing some of the capacity of the Indian-built INSAT-2E (scheduled for launch in 1997).
5/27/1968Second Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding given to Reverend Martin Luther King posthumously.
7/1/1949M. Venkaiah Rangaiah Naidu was born in Chavatapalem, Distt. Nellore (Andhra Pradesh).
7/24/1999Om Prakash Chautala is sworn in the Chief Minister of Haryana, and will seek trust vote on July 27.
1/24/1958First international Film Festival started in Mumbai.