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Historical Event on 6/5/1997

Brahmapuram diesel power project, KSEB's first thermal power project, situated 25 km from Kochi, Kerala commissioned.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/14/2000Jharkhand, the 28th State of the Indian Union, comes into being and the new Governor, Prabhat Kumar, and the Chief Minister, Babulal Marandi, take office.
3/12/1941Chinese engineers leave to survey a route for the proposed 1,000-mile-long highway from Ningyuan, China to Assam, India.
6/18/1993Advani takes over as party President.
3/2/1938Chandrakumar Agarwala, assamia poet, passed away.
6/27/1966D. S. Joshi was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-12-1968.
10/22/1908John Sutton, actor (Tower of London, Return of Fly), was born in Rawalpindi, India.
2/8/1912Girishchandra Ghosh, famous Bengali actor and dramatist, passed away.
10/31/199426 die as cyclone lashes Tamil Nadu.
12/12/1955The President promulgated an ordinance providing the usage of Hindi with English for official purposes of Indian Union. B.G. Kher Commission (under article 344(I) of the Constitution) constituted. Hindi Teaching Scheme was introduced under Ministry of Home Affairs.
4/21/1946Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, cricket (Indian off-spinner, Test umpire, ICC referee), was born in Madras. He received Arjun Award (1971).