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Historical Event on 6/5/1994
India test-fires a missile capable of reaching targets in China.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/10/1902 | Sir Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for detecting the cause of Malaria. |
| 1/15/1996 | Restoration of the original name of the city as ""Mumbai"" for Bombay Vide Maharashtra Act No, XXV of 1996. |
| 8/18/1896 | Raghupati Sahay ""Firaq Gorakhpuri"", revolutionary Urdu poet, was born. He was honoured with the highest literary awards, including the Sahitya Academy Award in 1960 and Bharatiya Gyanpeeth Award in 1969. His notable works include ""Ruh-e-Kayenaat (Spirit of Universe, 1945)"" and ""Ramz-O-Kinayaat (Suggestion, 1946)"". |
| 6/18/1989 | India and Pakistan decide to end the five-year-old confrontation in Siachen Glacier area by redeploying their forces. |
| 8/1/2000 | One hundred people of Kinnaur, Shimla and Mandi districts of HP die following flash floods in the Sutlej river. |
| 8/1/2000 | Emperor Humayun, son of Babar, was born in Kabul. |
| 4/18/1926 | Padmakar Ganesh Chitle, famous Marathi novelist, was born. |
| 6/3/1930 | George John Fernandes, social reformer and politician, was born in Mangalore (Karnataka). |
| 11/27/1999 | BJP recaptures the Jaipur Civic body posts by winning 49 out of 70 seats. |
| 11/22/1997 | Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, laid the foundation stone for Indo-Arab cultural centre at Hyderabad. |
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