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Historical Event on 5/9/1981

Pandit Sundarlal, great revolutionary and writer of 'Bharat Mein Angreji Raj', passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/6/1925Surendra Nath Banerjee died. He was one of the founders of mordern India and proponent of autonomy within the British Commonwealth. He was President of Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 at Pune and in 1902 at Ahmedabad.
1/31/1961Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha, first Chief Minister of Bihar, passed away.
11/19/19971996 Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development presented to Medicins Sans Frontieres, a non-government organisation, providing medical aid to the needy across the globe, by President K. R. Narayanan on the 80th birth anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
3/25/1916S. M. Pandit, famous painter, was born.
11/22/1913Lakshmikant Jha, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir state and international famed ecomonist, was born.
10/14/1947Narsingh Chintaman Kelkar, great litterateur, politician and editor, died.
5/2/1921Satyajeet Ray, world famous film director and a very short story writer, was born in a family of artistS. In 1989, he was awarded highest honour of France ''Legion d Honeur''.
6/25/1922Satyendranath Datta, famous Bengali poet, passed away.
12/16/1999The second phase of national AIDS programme is launched.
1/4/1907Govind Rai, renowned Gujarati novelist and writer of 'Saraswati Chandra', passed away.