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Historical Event on 5/9/1919
Ram Kumar Gupta, great industrialist, was born at Delhi.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/14/1995 | Major train accident near Salem when KK Express collides with goods train killing 51 people. |
| 12/30/1935 | Lord Reading, former Viceroy and Governor General of India, died at the age of 76 at UK. |
| 2/2/1835 | Thomas Babington Macaulay westernises education in India. English is made official government and court language and as medium of instruction. |
| 12/9/1825 | Tula Ram Rao, one of the revolutionary heroes of the 1857 and Sepoy Mutiny, was born. |
| 10/18/1995 | Baby Naaz (Anuradha Bhakkar), famous child actor, died. |
| 2/17/1993 | Rani Gaidinliu, freedom fighter, social reformer and political leader, died at her native village in Manipur. The British army made a surprise attack on her position and captured her. On 17th October, 1932, Pandit Nehru once wrote ""A day will come when India will remember her and cherishe her"". |
| 11/13/1908 | Yeshwantrao Hindurao Ghorpade, former ruler and great industrialist, was born. |
| 2/11/1847 | Thomas Alva Edison, great scientist and inventor of electric light lamp, was born at Milan, Ohio. |
| 6/13/1998 | India rejects G-8 prescriptions saying they are ''coercive and intrusive'' and intend to freeze the nuclear weapon capabilities of New Delhi and Islamabad. |
| 2/17/1997 | Anand finishes sixth in the City of Linares category 19 chess where Kasparov makes in four-in-a-row. |
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