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Historical Event on 5/9/1992
Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 5/3/1962 | Hundreds of Muslims are killed in clashes with Hindus in West Bengal. |
| 12/1/1947 | India all out for 58 vs Australia at Gabba. |
| 2/26/1946 | Mrinal Pandey, famous Hindi columnist, was born. |
| 1/16/1924 | In a tragic ship wreck, Kumaran Asan, famous Malayalam poet & eminent social worker, died. |
| 11/1/1999 | SC refuses to interfere with the Delhi High Court order in TRAI case. |
| 3/1/1994 | Manmohan Desai, famous Hindi film maker, passed away. He was 57. |
| 8/15/1994 | Sukumar Gupta, a socialist, dies. |
| 5/28/1992 | Indo-US naval exercises begin. |
| 8/2/1919 | Bharat Bhushan Agrawal, famous poet and winner of Sahitya Academy Award, was born. |
| 12/10/1969 | Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born crop expert, whose research on new strains of high-yielding rice and wheat has led to a Green Revolution in developing countries, was awarded the Nobel peace prize today. Working at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center of Mexico since 1944, Borlaug, 56, has directed a team of agronomists working on the development of new crop plant strains that have allowed Third World farmers to multiply yields dramatically. His organization has trained farm technicians from 29 countries, including India, Pakistan and Turkey, enabling them to move steadily toward the goal of self-sufficiency in food production. |
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