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Historical Event on 5/9/1995

Two new gas and oil reserves found off the Gujarat and Bombay coast.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/29/1997B.M. Sumavathi creats national record in heptathlon in the Federation Cup athletics.
2/28/1919Sunderlal Khurana, great politician and journalist, was born.
11/16/1990Chandrasekhar Government wins confidence motion of 280 for 214 against and 11 abstained (17 members were absent).
2/5/1922Amar Nath Sehgal, sculptor, was born at Campbellpur (W. Pakistan). His important works are ""Voice of Africa (Ghana-1958)"", A Cricketer (1961) and Mahatma Gandhi, Amritsar, To space Unknown (bronze, Moscow-1963)"", etc.
4/16/1997G. Kishenchand, former Indian Test cricketer, died.
7/15/1997Mahesh Chander Mehta, Environmental activist, wins Ramon Magsaysay Award.
5/27/1991Justice J.S. Verma of the Supreme Court appointed to probe into Rajiv Gandhi murder case.
6/6/1997New economic grouping BIST-EC (Bangladesh-India-Sri Lanka-Thailand Economic Cooperation forum) comes into being.
4/20/1965First Indian team led by M. S. Kohli ascends the Everest.
4/14/1952Three integrated Railway Zones, Northern, North Eastern and Eastern inaugurated.