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Historical Event on 5/7/1996
Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/15/1986 | Sandhya Agarwal made 190 runs in third Womens Test Cricket setting a new record in England. |
| 6/23/1946 | Gandhiji advises Congress not to enter Interim Government, but only Constituent Assembly. |
| 5/3/1969 | Dr. Zakir Hussain(1897-1969), third President of India and the first Muslim President who occupied this office on 13 May, 1967, passed away. He is also remembered as an educationist. |
| 4/16/1959 | Raurkela Iron Project's first furnace started functioning. |
| 5/5/1977 | Chandra Shekar chosen President of the Janatha Party. |
| 4/15/1980 | Six more private sector banks nationalized. |
| 10/14/1998 | Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel. |
| 1/8/1996 | Maharashtra government clears Enron Dhabol power project at a tariff of Rs. 1.86 per unit. |
| 1/2/1990 | Capt. Nivedita Bhasin, 26, becomes the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft. |
| 11/22/1967 | Tara Singh, freedom fighter, Akali Dal leader master and politician, died at Amritsar. |
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