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Historical Event on 5/9/1997

Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/24/1984Dilraj Singh, Soccer(Football) player, was born in Vancouver, Canada.
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
8/29/1956India gets $ 360 million loan as food aid.
10/2/1904Lal Bahadur Shastri, the second Prime Minister of India (1964-66), was born in Mughalsarai near Benaras in Uttar Pradesh.
7/21/1993Jayalalitha ends fast, Centre to set up a committee; Karnataka rejects the proposal.
11/24/1941Attack on Pearl Harbour.
11/13/1962Yezdani Gulam, great researcher, archeologist and art critic, died
4/12/1967U. Thant,UN Secretary General, receives the first Nehru Award for international understanding.
2/25/1968Judge Mohammad Hidayatullah became the Chief Justice of India. He held this office till 16/12/1970.
3/12/1995Congress party loses India national election.