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Historical Event on 5/9/1992

Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.

Other Historical Dates and Events
2/12/2000Ashok Shandilya wins the men's title in the National Billiards championship in Bangalore.
1/12/1955Pandit Baburao Vishnu Paradkar, eminent Hindi editor and veteran journalist, passed away.
3/24/1902Anusilan Samiti, a revolutionary organisation, was formed in Bengal.
7/30/1995Notification issued for the constitution of Jharkhand Autonomous District Council.
10/16/1920B. Sathyaji Rao, cricket Test umpire for 17 tests from 1960-79, was born in Karnataka.
1/29/1955'Bhartiya Kamgar Kisan Party' established.
4/24/1942Shri Dinanath Mangeshkar, famous Marathi singer, nationalist, musician and actor, passed away at the age of 41.
1/12/1948Gandhiji decides to fast for communal peace in Delhi for communal riots which broke between Hindus and Muslims at Calcutta. Mountbatten fails to dissuade Gandhiji.
1/5/1985Rajiv Gandhi promises to solve the Punjab problem without yielding to 'separatist ideologies.
9/29/1907Labour MP James Keir Hardie accuses UK of running India 'like the Czar runs Russia'