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Historical Event on 9/5/1988
The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/18/1978 | Dhirendra Ganguly, film maker, writer, director and actor, passed away. |
| 6/30/1823 | Sir Dinshaw Manokji Petit, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 7/21/1930 | Anand Bakshi, famous lyrisist, was born. |
| 2/25/1977 | Second satellite Earth Station established at Dehradun. |
| 8/19/1910 | Sister Alphonsa, teacher and social worker, was born at Kudamaloor, Kerala. |
| 12/17/1715 | Banda Bahadur Bairagi surrendered at Gurdaspur of Farrukhsiyar to the Mughal army. |
| 7/1/1961 | Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian women astronaut (STS 87), was born in Karnal. |
| 9/14/1971 | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, famous Bengali litterateur, died. |
| 4/12/1752 | Agreement to save the king between Shinde and Holkar. |
| 1/3/1997 | Government announces setting up of a Central Board for bank frauds. |
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