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Historical Event on 6/5/1997

I. K. Gujral's visit to Nepal was marked by signing of Power Trade Agreement and MoU on civil aviation.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/20/1990Supreme Court stays Delhi High Court judge Justice Chawla's orders on the Bofors issue.
11/22/1718Durgadas Rathore, social reformer, died on the banks of the Sipra at Ujjain.
6/11/200027 army personnel die after the bus carrying them plunges into a gorge at a spot 80 km from Jammu.
10/20/1990Kona Prabhakar Rao, former Governor of Maharashtra, died.
9/25/2000A Delhi Court dismisses applications of three of the 17 accused seeking dropping of proceedings against them in the sensational Coomar Narain espionage case which hit the headlines and rattled the Rajiv Gandhi Government in 1985.
4/12/1752Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar.
5/13/1946Sarwate and Banerjee add 249 runs for the 10th wkt stand for Indians v Surrey.
3/20/1904Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi.
3/18/1915British Government approved Indian Security Act to have greater control on the Indian people.
12/7/1992Religious riots swept across India in the wake of the destruction of the ancient Babri Masjid mosque by rampaging Hindu fanatics in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya yesterday. More than 800 people had been killed and hundreds injured as Muslim and Hindu mobs stabbed, shooted and beat each other. The violence had thrown the government into chaos and had spilled into the neighboring states of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The army had been called out to restore order in Bombay, where street battles left 41 dead. The stock market had been closed down and Parliament forced to adjourn. Advani quit as the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha.