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Historical Event on 5/9/1981
Durga Bai Deshmukh passed away at Hyderabad. She was a social reformer, freedom fighter, planner, administrator, educationist and parliamentarian. She worked for peace, social welfare and for betterment of the downtrodden.
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| 10/12/1995 | Inderjit Gupta re-elected General Secretary of CPI. |
| 9/21/1912 | Firoz Gandhi, great politician, was born. |
| 6/2/1986 | One thousand Sikhs arrested at demonstrations in Punjab. |
| 11/1/2000 | Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, Union Minister for Sports, releases the CBI report on match-fixing in New Delhi. |
| 11/1/2000 | General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India. |
| 12/12/1964 | Maithili Sharan Gupta, famous Indian poet, Hindi litterateur, writer, social worker, patriot and Padma Bhushan awardee, died. |
| 1/22/1993 | A Patna-Lucknow-Delhi IA flight IC-810 was hijacked by a certain Satish Chandra Pandey shortly after take-off. |
| 10/4/1847 | Pratapsingh Bhosle, Maratha King, died. |
| 11/27/1881 | Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP. |
| 5/4/1998 | India is placed on the US Special 309 watch list. |
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