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Historical Event on 5/5/1989

Naval Tata, famous industrialist, passed away.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/7/1763Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal.
7/17/1893Lokmanya Tilak was arrested for 18 months.
5/7/1950Punjab Mail train crashed near Jasidh killing 81 persons.
12/16/1924Nissim Ezekiel, educationist and author, was born.
4/10/1997Kerala becomes the first state to have public telephones in all its villages, accessible over STD/ISD from any part of the world.
7/31/1952Bela Mitra, commander of ""Nari Vahini"" and activist of ""Azad Hind Fauj"", passed away. She also worked as partition refugee.
9/11/1888Henry Heras, famous artist and an active member of the Indian Historical Records Commission, was born in Barcelona, Spain.
10/13/1987Kishore Kumar Ganguly, well known singer, died in Bombay.
12/6/1931Bengal Congress to boycott British goods.
2/12/1932Roby James Francis D. Silva, great industrialist, artist and designer, was born at Bombay.