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Historical Event on 5/9/1997
Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 1/26/1997 | Delhi becomes the first state in India to enforce a ban on smoking in all public places. |
| 6/15/1908 | Stock Exchange of Calcutta was opened of Baldeodas Daduawala and Overened. |
| 10/19/1907 | Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born. |
| 10/19/1920 | Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born. |
| 3/9/1989 | Yasser Arafat, PLO Chairman, arrives on a two-day state visit to India. |
| 3/24/1947 | Lord Louis Mountbatten came to India. |
| 1/24/1951 | Nehru assails US. demand for UN to name Peking as aggressor in Korea, New Delhi. |
| 4/17/1926 | Chandrashekhar, eighth Prime Minister of India, was born. |
| 1/1/1986 | Fourth Pay Commission implemented. |
| 3/11/1903 | Shrinagesh M. M, former General, was born. |
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