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Historical Event on 6/5/1882
Cyclonic Storm & floods in Arabian Sea hit Bombay. About 100,000 people drowned.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 6/19/1981 | APPLE, India's first experimental geo-stationary telecommunication satellite having experimental communication satellite, successfully launched by European Ariane, Kourou, French Guiana. This is the first to be stabilized on 3 axes. |
| 9/5/1904 | Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born. |
| 2/10/1803 | Jagannath Sunkerseth, great social worker, education lover and one of the sculptors of modern Mumbai, was born. |
| 9/1/1999 | Ace athlete Jyotirmoyee Sikdar is awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna; coaches Bahadur Singh, Hargobind Singh (athletics) and Gurbax Singh Sandhu (boxing) the Dronacharya awards during the Arjuna awards function at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Delhi. |
| 8/14/1980 | Centre nationalizes Maruti company. |
| 7/5/2000 | Rachita Mistry breaks P.T. Usha's long-standing record in 100m (11.39s) clocking 11.26s in the National circuit meet in Bangalore. |
| 8/11/1999 | The last total solar eclipse of the millenium was seen in northern parts of India and France. This eclipse lasted for 2 min and 23 sec. |
| 9/16/1916 | D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. |
| 9/3/1984 | Air Chief Marshal Dilbagh Singh PVSM, AVSM, VM, retired as the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. |
| 2/18/1823 | Gopal Hari Deshmukh, lokhitwadi, was born. |
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