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Historical Event on 9/5/1997

CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/19/1951Sukhdev Bihari Mishra of Mishra Brothers, first historian of Hindi litterateur, passed away.
10/31/1999Shankar Dayal Sharma, former President, is conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award.
8/28/1998India and Pakistan clash at the Security Council after New Delhi denounced the running of terrorist training camps in the Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan.
12/11/1931Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ""Osho"", guru of the rich, was born.
9/8/1965Pakistan commenced its drive into the Indian Punjab using its 1-armoured division with the aim to foreclose India's options north of the Beas-Sutlej river line, after foiling the southern most divisional attack mounted by 4-Mountain Division.
3/3/1983Seventh Non-Aligned Summit started at New Delhi.
1/8/1987P. G. Joshi, cricketer (12 Tests for India 1951-60, ct 18 stp 9), passed away.
8/9/1966Heroes of the 1942 movement were honoured at a rally in Red Fort.
2/19/1993Salseng C. Marak sworn in as the Congress-I CM in Meghalaya.
10/16/1999Geet Sethi bagged the Fred Davis award as the "Billiards Player of the Year 1998-99'