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Historical Event on 9/5/1979

Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/25/1943Japanese bombers raid Chittagong.
8/20/1969Varahagiri Venkata Giri was elected President and G. S. Pathak as Vice President of India.
8/20/1969Mahaprabhu Sri Chaitanya Devji alias Gaurang, Vishwambhar Mishra, Vaishnav Saint of Bengal, was born at Nabadwip in Bengal.
12/23/1972Chandrasekhar takes 8-79 India v England at Delhi.
7/11/2000Amrita Pritam, noted litterateur, honoured with the highest award for Punjabi literature for the century:""Shatabdi Samman"".
6/11/2000Assailants gun down 12 upper caste persons, including eight of a family in Bihar's Nawada district.
1/11/1998C. V. Gadkari, great Indian Test all-rounder 1953-55, passed away.
5/20/1992Jayalalitha sacks R. M. Veerappan from her cabinet in Tamil Nadu.
10/11/1991Meghalaya placed under President's rule.
7/12/1960Ranchi University was established.