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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 |
| 8/4/1845 | Pherozeshah Mehta, who published the first Hindi newspaper and one of the founders of Indian National Congress, was born in Bombay. |
| 4/6/1664 | Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese. |
| 9/15/1940 | Anil Yashwant Tipnis, Air Chief Marshal, was born. |
| 11/6/1937 | Yashwant BipinBihari Sinha was born in Patna (Bihar). |
| 9/26/1999 | Atal Behari Vajpayee, Prime Minister, dispatched a team of experts to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to assess the water storage position. |
| 5/1/1902 | Tornodo hit Dhaka part of Bengal, claims 416 lives. |
| 2/11/1993 | Centre bans BJP rally in the capital on February 25. |
| 1/23/1999 | An Australian missionary, Graham Stewart Staines, and his two sons Philip and Timothy are burnt to death by miscreants near Manoharpur village in Orissa's Keonjhar district. |
| 4/21/1992 | RBI eases credit policy, lending rates reduced from 6 to 4; 13\% interest ceiling on deposits. |
| 10/27/1923 | Arvind Navinchandra Mafatlal, famous industrialist, was born. |
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