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Historical Event on 9/5/1997
Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 12/11/1998 | Poet Pradeep (Ramchandra Divedi) died at 1850 hrs today. |
| 8/14/1920 | Rushikesh Mulgaonkar, Air Chief Marshal (1976-78), was born. |
| 2/18/1993 | Phoolan Devi, the legendary Bandit Queen, was released after 11 years in jail. A heroine to many low-caste Indians, she was born into the Mallah caste of fishermen, close to the bottom of India's rigid social scale, and became a bandit after she was gang-raped. She led her rural band in robbing and killing upper-caste Thakurs in revenge for the murder of her lover and acquired a Robin Hood image. The Rebel of the Ravines siad, ""I shall work for the upliftment of the women and downtrodden"". |
| 7/29/1995 | Anup Jalota, famous Bhajan and Ghazal singer, was born. |
| 3/5/1922 | Ebrahim Suleman Maka, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (2 Tests vs West Indies1952), was born at Daman. |
| 11/2/1972 | B. D. Pande was appointed as the Cabinet Secretary of India. He held this office till 31-03-1977 |
| 1/27/1904 | R. P. Kanitkar, veteran writer, nationalist, journalist and editor, was born. |
| 2/18/1998 | C. Subramaniam, former Maharashtra Governor, is awarded Bharat Ratna. |
| 7/27/1889 | Branch of Indian National Congress, 'British India Committee' , was established under the leadership of Dadabhai Navroji. |
| 7/18/1695 | Joannes Camphuys, Governal General of Dutch-Indies, died at the age of 61. |
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