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Historical Event on 5/5/1992

Prithvi, India's medium range surface-to-surface missile, successfully launched.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/6/1774British Government supported Peshwa Raghunath Rao to re-conqure Pune.
6/17/1917Krishan Kumar Chopra, medical practitioner and social worker, was born at Lahore.
7/21/1988Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1C) launched. This is operational multi-purpose communication and meteorology satellite. It served for only one and a half years. It was launched by European Ariane launch vehicle Ariane-3.
11/9/1990Vishwanath Pratap Singh resigned from the post of Prime Minister of India after losing the Vote of Confidence moved against him.
1/28/1992Umanath Vachaspati, Magsesey Award winner, passed away.
3/22/1996Golden Temple renamed Harmandir Sahib (its original name meaning 'abode of God').
9/4/1980Second Commonwealth Regional Heads of Government Conference in New Delhi.
1/1/1918Sir Edwin Lutyens was knighted in recognition of his quality of work at Delhi and his gratuitious services to the War Graves Commission.
1/15/1998Binda Prasad Kashyap, 73, CPI leader, passed away in Nagpur.
4/5/1989Pannalal Patel, great Gujrati litterateur, died.