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Historical Event on 7/5/1990

G. C. Saxena, J&K Governor, promulgates J&K Disturbed Areas Act, 1990, declaring several districts as disturbed area.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/2/1970Parliament abolishes the privileges of 279 maharajahs in New Delhi.
12/4/1991Lok Sabha approves a vital bill seeking to bring sick public sector units within the purview of the BIFR.
5/1/1972All fuel coal mines were nationalised.
11/12/1781Nagapatnam of South India was captured by the British troops.
11/12/1885Firodia Kundanmal Shobhachand, politician and Gandhian, was born.
3/4/1996Union govt. decides to set up a national grid for the distribution of petroleum products.
5/16/1932Hundreds die in fighting between Muslims and Hindus at Bombay.
10/29/1997P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister, says Indian rupee will be made fully and freely convertible by year 2000.
1/2/1959Kirtivardhan Bhagwat Jha Azad, cricketer (Indian off-spin all-rounder in 7 Tests 1981-83), was born in Purnea, Bihar.
2/26/1857First Indian Revolution called the Sepoy Mutiny ends in a few months with the fall of Delhi and Lucknow which broke out in Berhampore by the 19th Bengal Infantry.