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Historical Event on 5/5/1992
Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/1/1949 | M. Venkaiah Rangaiah Naidu was born in Chavatapalem, Distt. Nellore (Andhra Pradesh). |
| 7/1/1928 | Fifteen people were killed in Calcutta as Hindus attacked Muslims. |
| 8/12/1919 | Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, the father of Indian space technology and scientist, was born at Ahmedabad. |
| 2/15/1936 | Nabin Chandra Bardoloi, freedom fighter, passed away. He was known for his patriotism and zeal for constructive work and was a forceful and emotional orator and debater and an eminent writer in Assamese litrature. He was also a musician and composed good number of patriotic poems and songs. |
| 8/18/1923 | Jamshed Khudadaad Irani, cricket wicket-keeper for India during the 1947-48 Australia tour, was born in Karachi. |
| 7/5/1968 | Naval Submarine wing in Indian Naval Force came into existence with the arrival of the first submarine from the Soviet Union. |
| 9/19/1962 | Jawaharlal Nehru was devastated when China began attacks on India's northern frontier leading to Indo-China War. |
| 11/28/1999 | Senior Awami League leader Mohammed Anwar Sheikh is killed and his wife and daughter-in-law are seriously injured in a militant attack on his house in Kashmir. |
| 11/5/1928 | R. V. S. Perishastri, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, was born. |
| 6/22/1994 | L. V. Prasad, father of South Indian film industry, died. |
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