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Historical Event on 9/5/1988

The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/20/1878Bahameni Sultan Dawood Shah was assassinated.
10/24/1966Yugoslavia, UAR call on the US at New Delhi to stop bombing of North Vietnam.
10/2/1951Dr. Shyamprasad Mukharjee established Bhartiya JanSangh Party.
2/5/1986Laxmanrao Sardesai, famous Marathi and Konkani litterateur, passed away.
2/17/1994Bihar leader Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav and Mizoram's Dr. C. Silvera inducted into Union Cabinet.
7/19/1998Tremors measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale rocked Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
7/27/1947Princes were appealed to regard people's paramountcy as a privilege.
8/9/1963India is the first country to add its signature to the test-ban treaty at Moscow.
7/25/1988Sikh extremists kill the chief priest of the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
12/15/1943The Vengeance suffered numerous defects and teething troubles, necessitating temporary withdrawal from the two IAF squadrons, but the problems were eventually mitigated if not eradicated, and No. 8 Sqn flew its first operational Vengeance sorties against Japanese targets from Double Moorings, Chittagong.