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Historical Event on 5/9/1874
First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 9/28/2000 | Marion Jones wins the 200m gold medal at Sydney. |
| 3/29/1942 | Britain offered dominion status to India after the war if it cooperated now. |
| 2/20/1947 | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced in the House of Commons, London, that Britain will release India before June 1948 and for this purpose Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed to work as the new Viceroy of India. |
| 12/22/1843 | Debendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore, accepted Brahmo religion at the hands of Ramchandra Vidyabagish. |
| 9/1/1965 | Pakistan launched Operation 'Grand Slam' in Chhamb sector aimed at Akhnoor in Jammu. Indians had battled Pakistanis in air and on ground at Kashmir. |
| 1/29/1997 | Supreme Court rules that water is a 'mineral'. |
| 12/4/1796 | Bajirao became the second Peshwa. |
| 4/29/1909 | Tukdoji Maharaj, social reformer, modern Saint and poet, was born at Yavli in Amravati district, Maharashtra. |
| 5/23/1903 | Gemini Roy, famous Painter, joined Government School of Arts and Crafts at Calcutta. |
| 10/27/1997 | UP ministry expanded by inducting 70 new members thus taking the total number of a record 93 members. |
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