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Historical Event on 6/5/1997

Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/27/1929Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag at the All India National Congress session held in Lahore. They resolved for ""Purna Swaraj"" (complete independence) on the instance of Gandhiji, the Viceroy of India that time was Lord Irwin.
3/29/1995Harindra Dave, chief editor of Janmabhumi Group and Gujrati author, passed away.
9/20/1940Saroj Lalwani, journalist and printing press director, was born.
11/8/1932Sankhla Badluram, great industrialist, was born in Delhi.
12/23/1900Kalicharan Patnaik, famous Orria dramatist, poet and journalist, was born.
2/19/1818Bapu Gokhle, last General of Maratha kingdom, passed away.
12/16/1922Parvati Devi, orator, was arrested for delivering revolutionary speeches in meetings at Hapud and Merrut. She was the first Indian women to get two years long imprisionment during the freedom struggle.
9/10/1992All movable and immovable properties of big bull Harshad Mehta, and others involved in the Security scam, attached.
8/15/1995P.V Narasimha Rao introduces the mid-day meal scheme for the primary school children under the Central Government Welfare Programme.
2/19/1915Gopal Krishna Gokhale, social reformer, political leader and freedom fighter, passed away.