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Historical Event on 5/9/1997
At least 71 persons were killed and nine injured when a truck carrying a marriage party plunges into gorge near Gasota in Hamerpur district of Himachal Pradesh.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 10/30/1991 | Bansilal Ladda, veteran freedom fighter and law expert, passed away. |
| 5/22/1917 | Suniti Chaudhary, revolutionary freedom fighter, was born at Kumilla. She was one of the accused in the famous Chargaon ammunition plot and assassination of General Lemen, Inspector General of Dhaka. |
| 8/19/1993 | Sharad Pawar elected to Maharashtra Legislative Council from Pune. |
| 10/24/1955 | Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra. |
| 7/5/1992 | Bahadur Prasad at London sets record for 3000m in 7.56.74. |
| 10/24/1992 | Narmada, World Bank sets time to correct defects. |
| 5/18/1988 | The ten-day Golden Temple siege at Amritsar ends with the surrender of 46 militant Sikhs. |
| 5/8/1997 | Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion. |
| 4/19/1994 | Rajindersing Sparo, first awardee of `Mahavir Chakra' and former Chief Minister of Punjab Major General, passed away. |
| 5/9/1995 | Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast. |
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