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Historical Event on 5/7/1990

Government of India bans strikes in any service in any oil field or refinery under the Essential Services Maintenance Act.

Other Historical Dates and Events
4/12/1801William Carey fort was appointed the Professor of Bengali Language in fort at William College, Calcutta.
6/12/1960783 Sikhs are arrested while demonstrating for an independent Sikh state in New Delhi.
11/11/1675Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur thus beginning the Sikh-Muslim feud that continues to this day.
5/28/1965Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad, India kills 400.
3/22/1709It is assumed that Goswami Tulsidas started writing his great epic 'Ramcharitmanas' in Samvat 1631.
10/29/1999The Anubhav Group chairman C. Natesan was arrested by the Mumbai Police on alleged charges of duping investors to the tune of Rs. 1.16 crore.
12/5/1992Monisha, actress and winner of the 1987 'Urvasi' award for the Malayalam film 'Nakhakshathangal' died at a young age of 21 years.
1/5/1934Dr. Murli Manohar Manmohan Joshi was born in Delhi.
1/2/1754Robert Clive again attacked and annexed Calcutta from Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah.
1/2/1754Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.