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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
2/2/1989France's highest civilian award, 'Legion d' Honour, conferred upon Satyajit Ray by President Mitterrand at Calcutta.
9/14/1803Lord Lake was captured Delhi.
2/3/1997Major fire reduces Calcutta Book Fair to ashes.
2/28/1985M.G. Katre became the director of Central Bureau of Investigation (till 31/10/89).
7/22/1925Homi Jehangir Teleyarkhan, social worker, was born.
8/8/1966India endorses the Partial Nuclear Ban Treaty.
12/3/1971Hostilities broke out between India and Pakistan. On the very night that hostilities commenced, with Pakistan bombing several air fields, IN Ships 'Rajput' and 'Akshay' were leaving Vishakapatnam harbour when they obtained a sonar contact. They fired several depth charges and proceeded on their mission when there was no further evidence of a submarine's presence. Thereafter, a loud explosion of rattling windows panes off the Vishakapatnam beach was heard . The Pakistani submarine 'Ghazi' (a Tench class submarine obtained from the USA in 1964) had come to grief.
3/4/1990V. P. Singh resigns as party president, but asked to continue.
3/22/1991Chautala sworn in as Haryana CM.
3/13/1989The first straw fired thermal power plant was laid in Jakhari village of Punjab.