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Historical Event on 5/9/1997

At least 71 persons were killed and nine injured when a truck carrying a marriage party plunges into gorge near Gasota in Hamerpur district of Himachal Pradesh.

Other Historical Dates and Events
12/29/1885A group of middle-class intellectuals in India, some of them British, found the Indian National Congress to be a voice of Indian opinion to the British government. This was the origin of the later Congress Party which was founded in Bombay.
7/26/2000The Centre imposes a ban on employing children belowing 14 years as domestic servants by all Government employees in the All India services at the insistence of the NHRC.
1/26/1926V. G. Kanitkar, famous Marathi literatteur, was born.
11/22/2000Chhota Rajan, Mumbai gangster, escapes from the custody of Thai authorities.
12/20/1956Saint Gadgebaba died.
6/30/1991A 36-member Congress ministry led by Hiteswar Saikia assumes office in Assam.
4/8/1950Nehru and Ali Khan sign the Indo-Pakistani Pact.
11/30/1986Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
1/4/1994Rahul Dev Burman, famous music director better known as 'Pancham Da', died at the age of 56.
1/18/1982Six thousand labor activists arrested in two days and national strike called in New Delhi.