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Historical Event on 5/7/1996
Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 7/31/1985 | Lalit Maken, Congress (I) M.P, his wife and a visitor at their residence in Delhi were shot down by terrorists. |
| 5/13/1994 | Telecom sector opened to private companies under the new national policy announced in Parliament. |
| 1/21/2000 | The Samata Party National Executive elects Mrs. Jaya Jaitley as its president. |
| 7/20/1680 | Chhatrapati Sambhaji was throne. |
| 7/6/1901 | Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal. |
| 5/20/1940 | Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), passed away. |
| 12/28/1930 | Police are stoned by demonstrators as they attempt to prevent an illegal flag-salutation ceremony at Bombay. |
| 8/16/1994 | Government agrees to present the revised ATR on JPC report on Scam; Parliament crisis defused. |
| 7/23/1996 | R. Bhattacharji was appointed as the Narcotics Commissioner of India. He is heading this office till date. |
| 8/4/1894 | Narayan Sitaram Phadke, famous Hindi writer, was born at Karjat. |
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