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Historical Event on 5/9/1992

Killer brew claims 175 lives in Orissa, Excise Minister Prasanna Kumar Acharya resigns.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/25/1993National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, celebrated its platinum jubilee in 1993 by organizing several scientific activities throughout the year, culminating in the International Symposium on Nutrition during November 25-27, 1993.
7/23/1898Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, well known Bangla novelist, was born.
3/12/1930Mahatma Gandhi started Dandi March from Sabarmati Ashram near Ahmedabad to break salt law. This march stretched of 375 km. was covered in 26 days with 78 followers. The whole of India joined the campaign to boycott foreign goods and refused to pay taxes. Khan Abdul Ghafar Khan or Frontier Gandhi started Khudai Kidmatgar movement in the North-West Frontier. The Government went back to its brutal force and about 90,000 people were imprisoned within a year. In Peshawar, the Gharwal regiment refused to shoot a demonstrator. In Nagaland Rani Gaidilita, a 13 year old girl raised the flag against the Britishers and was put into life imprisonment in 1932. Nehru hearing this uttered A day will come when India will remember her and Cherish her. She was released after Independence.
4/2/1994Governor Bhanu Prakash Singh dismisses Wilfred D'souza Government in Goa.
6/6/1990GOI decides to extend validity of passports to 10 years.
4/15/1996Shyam Benegal's film ""The Making of a Mahatma"" released in South Africa.
5/22/1997At least 40 persons are killed and over 300 injured in an earthquake which hit Jabalpur city.
9/4/1665Raja Jai Singh treaty of Purandar was signed between the Mughals and Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
2/5/1991The last of 1.2 lakh Indians in Kuwait manage to return to India.
10/25/1997180mw Lower Periyar Hydroelectric Project in Kerala commissioned after 13 long years.