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Historical Event on 5/9/1995

Abha Gandhi, servant to Mahatma Gandhi, passed away. He was 68 years.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/17/1960Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.
12/19/1988Umashankar Joshi, Gyanpeeth awardee and Gujrathi poet, died.
10/20/1961B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died.
12/3/1956Manik Bandopadhyay, modern Bengali novelist and story writer, passed away.
8/19/1993Y. D. Lokurkar, senior journalist, died.
9/29/1994Cable Television Regulation Ordinance issued.
9/5/1967Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister.
5/1/1996International women's master Anupama Gokhale of Bharat Petroleum becomes the first woman in the history of Indian chess to win an all-India level international rating tournament with her bagging the Mohammed Hassan memorial title.
1/1/1900Doordrahsan was started. Doordarshan is an autonomous public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, which is owned by the Broadcasting Ministry of India and is one of two divisions of Prasar Bharati.
1/11/1613Emperor Jahangir in a proclamation permitted East India Company to establish factories in Surat. And the first British factory was established under Thomas Aldworth.