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Historical Event on 11/5/1996
Narashima Rao, former PM, refused bail in St. Kitts forgery case.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1967 | 6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed. |
| 12/3/1991 | Lok Sabha question hour telecast at 7.15 a.m for the first time . |
| 4/15/1992 | D. T. Lakdawala, former member of Planning Commission, passed away. |
| 7/17/1935 | Dr. Ram Babu Gupta, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1986-89, was born at Delhi. |
| 7/17/1935 | Saint Visoba Khechar, was the yogi-guru of the Varkari poet-saint Namdev of Maharashtra, took Samadhi. |
| 8/1/1905 | Horse drawn tram cars were closed down in Bombay. This service was started on May 9, 1874 with 20 tram cars and 200 horses. The very first day of its run, the number of passengers carried was 451 and the amount earned was Rs. 85/- on the last day it had 1360 horses and carried 71,947 passengers and earned Rs.4,260/. |
| 6/17/1903 | Jyotiprasad Agarwal, Assamia playwright, poet and music director, was born. |
| 10/14/1940 | Cliff Richards [Harry Webb], rock vocalist, was born in Lucknow, India. |
| 8/16/1923 | Narayan Athavle, famous Marathi litterateur and journalist, was born. |
| 11/29/1926 | Prabhakar Narayan Padhye (Bhau Padhye), great journalist and litterateur, was born. |
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