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Historical Event on 5/7/1990
Government of India bans strikes in any service in any oil field or refinery under the Essential Services Maintenance Act.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/5/1997 | Janata Dal splits. Laloo Prasad Yadav forms Rashtriya Janata Dal and Sharad Yadav was elected as the Janta Dal president. |
| 10/16/1999 | Indian women claimed bronze in the Asian team chess championship in Shenyang |
| 9/2/1946 | Pratham Chaudhary (Birbal), modern Bengali poet and critic, passed away. |
| 10/12/2000 | A Special Court sentences former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Home Minister Buta Singh to undergo three years rigorous imprisonment and pay a fine of Rs. 2 lakhs each in the 'JMM MPs' bribery case'. |
| 4/20/1888 | 246 reported killed by an hail storm in Moradabad, India. |
| 1/15/1888 | Saifuddin Kitchlew, freedom fighter and President of the Punjab, was born at Amritsar. |
| 11/20/1969 | Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs Australia in Kanpur. |
| 12/16/1909 | Lal Singh Narayan Singh, cricketer (scored 15 & 29 in India's 1st Test match), was born near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| 10/20/1962 | China mounted a massive attacked in N.E.E.F.A. and Ladakh borders. Chinese army pushed Indians back. The real test of IAF airlift capability came when open warfare erupted on the Sino-lndian border, while operating to the tricky helipads in the mountains, including the operation of C-119Gs from airstrips 17,000 ft (5180m) above sea level in the Karakoram Himalayas, and the air-lifting by An-12Bs of two troops of AMX-13 light tanks to Chushul in Ladakh, where the small airstrip was 15,000 ft (4570m) above sea level. |
| 10/1/1998 | Anxiety in stock market after UTI's US-64 scheme is reported to have paid dividend, eating out of its capital. |
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