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Historical Event on 5/9/1997

Hareesh Khandelwal, an accused in the fodder scam, commits suicide by jumping before a train at Dhanbad in Bihar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
3/2/1984Mother Teresa University inaugurated by Mother herself at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu.
1/19/1997Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad arrives in India on a 4-day visit.
11/6/1930First Round Table Conference held at London.
3/25/1933Vasantrao Gowarikar, space scientist, was born.
9/23/1903Yusuf Meherali, freedom fighter and socialist, was born.
8/11/2000Koneru Humpy was crowned the youngest British Ladies chess champion at the end of eleventh and final round in the Smith and Williamson British chess championship in Somerset.
12/11/1926Kamala Kant Pandey was born at Varanasi. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He was elected fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1966. In 1975, he made the discovery of a ""revolutionary technique in plant breeding
9/2/1992Delhi High Court indicts CBI in Bofors case; FIR and letters rogatory quashed.
1/26/1950Government of India accepted the National Emblem. It consisted of Head of Lion which is taken from Ashok piller situated near Sarnath.
12/11/1872Rajkhova Benudhar, modern Assamese poet, was born.