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Historical Event on 5/9/1981

Durga Bai Deshmukh passed away at Hyderabad. She was a social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian. She worked for peace, social welfare and for betterment of the downtrodden.

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1/22/1973Swami Ramanand Tirth, politician and educationalist, passed away.
10/1/1997Ordinance promulgated to ban single digit or instant lotteries.
6/4/1993The Babri tribunal strikes down ban on RSS and Bajrang Dal and upholds outlawing of VHP.
8/7/1991India successfully launches Prithvi-III, surface-to-air missile from Sriharikota.
2/11/1861Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay was born in Khanyan village of Bengal.
3/2/1990DMK Front to form government in Pondicherry and Congress (I) in Maharashtra.
10/31/1990Religious clashes between Hindus and Muslims leave more than 180 people dead.
3/30/1992Satyajit Ray received the honorary Oscar award..
11/29/1945Ugoslaviya in Rajshahi was ended.
3/22/1933M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.