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Historical Event on 5/9/1995

Militants set Charar township on fire in the vicinity of the Charar-e-Sherif shrine. More than 1,000 houses burnt.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
2/22/1997India, Turkmenistan and Iran sign transit agreement.
5/25/1894Biharilal Chakravorty, bengali poet, passed away.
6/1/1890Sri Seeripi Anjaneyulu, journalist, social reformer and educationist, was born at Dharmavaram, Anantapur.
12/15/1976Daily newspaper ""Lokmat"" published it's first Jalgaon edit
2/24/1867Kedarnath Das, geat physiologist, was born.
2/13/1719Jahandar Shah was strangled to death and the Sayyid brothers were killed soon after.
5/18/1999R. B. Sapre, India's first national chess champion, died in Mumbai.
2/17/1917Fali Mistry, film director and cameraman, was born in Bombay.
7/22/199824-year old P T Usha won bronze medals in the 400m and 200m races and anchored the 4x100m relay team to gold and 4x400m for silver at the Asian Track and Field Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.