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Historical Event on 5/9/1996

J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/24/1890Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta.
7/31/1991Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1993.
12/3/19843,000 people died and more than 50,000 people were badly affected when they inhaled poisonous toxic gas emission from the Union Carbide plant. This event is better known as ""the Bhopal Gas Tragedy"", the biggest industrial disaster that occured in India.
2/18/1911Captain Vasudev Belwalkar, who had also written the novels on history and war, was born.
2/3/1925First Electric Train started its journey from Bombay V. T. (presently known as C.S.T.) to Kurla. This train was on the Central Railway, Bombay.
7/13/1964Utpal Chatterjee, cricketer (Bengal slow left-arm bowler), was born in Calcutta.
9/24/1934Arvind Laxman Apte, right-hand batsman, was born in Mumbai.
8/2/1922Krishnapal Singh, politician and lawyer, was born at Birahuli in Madhya Pradesh.
7/14/1923Iqbal Singh Bhatia, great educationist, was born at Kotla Qasim Khan, (Pakistan).
2/22/1997India, Turkmenistan and Iran sign transit agreement.