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Historical Event on 5/9/1998
Kirit Raval is appointed Solicitor-General of India.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 2/21/1987 | Pakistan President Gen. Zia visits India. |
| 2/10/1897 | Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P). |
| 4/24/1998 | India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final. |
| 1/10/1996 | All in all, it has been a long story of nearly nine decades, with the early shaky screen images turning into a multi-pronged and multi-winged empire of its own, that has yielded about 27,000 feature films and thousands of documented short films. |
| 5/17/1991 | Prabhakar Machve, great litterateur, passed away. |
| 9/15/1997 | Prasar Bharati Act comes into force seeking to free Doordarshan and Akashvani from government control. |
| 4/30/1863 | Naval Force East India Comapny was merged with the British Naval Fleet. |
| 11/17/1928 | Lala Lajpat Rai died in Lahore after being seriously wounded in the barbarous lathi charge of 30th October. He is referred as the ""Lion of Punjab"" or ""Punjab Kesari"" and is remembered as freedom fighter, nationalist, educationist, lawyer, thinker, writer, social reformer, orator and a passionate fighter for the revival of the ancient Indian culture and |
| 3/31/1871 | Gangadhar Balkrishna Deshpande, freedom fighter and loyal Congress leader 'Lion of Karnataka', was born. |
| 4/10/1993 | Student hijackers of IA plane overpowered in Lucknow. |
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