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Historical Event on 7/5/1992
Centre scraps octroi in Union Territories.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/17/1950 | Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), passed away. |
| 4/2/1987 | Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards. |
| 10/20/1961 | B. S. Guha, famous human scientist, died. |
| 6/20/1994 | Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air in Jammu & Kashmir against the killing of Quazi Nissar Ahmed, Mirwaiz of South Kashmir and a famous religious Kashmiri leader who was gunned down by Pak-aided terrorists. |
| 12/12/1992 | The world's largest monolithic granite statue of Lord Buddha, weighing 350 tonnes, placed on the 'Rock of Gibraltar' in the midst of Hussain Sagar lake in Hyderabad. |
| 1/29/1953 | Indian National Academy of Dance, Drama and Music inaugurated. |
| 7/2/1999 | Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) planned a 'fast' to protest against the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP). |
| 2/10/1897 | Sannidhanam Suryanarayana Sastry, educationist and writer, was born at Chiriwada, (A.P). |
| 2/10/1897 | Portuguese Catholics conquer Goa under Albuquerque, the then Governor, to serve as capital of their Asian maritime empire beginning conquest and exploitation of India by Europeans. |
| 5/25/1941 | Sagarmal Gopa, a devoted patriot and freedom fighter, was arrested in Jaisalmer. He wrote two books ""Jaisalmer Rajya ka Gunda Shasan"" and ""Raghunath Singh Ka Mukadma"" for which he was prohibited to enter in Jaisalmer. |
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