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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
1/25/1914Gandhi reaches agreement with South African Union govt. on treatment of Indian nationals at South Africa.
5/8/1997Mumbai High Court holds that Christian women can seek divorce on the sole ground of being subjected to cruelty and need not prove infedidelity on the part of their husbands or desertion.
5/8/1997Amir Timur of Timur Lang invaded India with 92 squadrons of horses and 90,000 cavalry and reached the banks of Sindhu river near Atak city (now in Pakistan). He then attacked Delhi because its Muslim Sultanate was too tolerant of Hindu idolatry. A Mongolian follower of Sufism, he was one of the most ruthless of all conquerors. Timur crossed the Indus River at Attock (now in Pakistan) on 24 September 1398.
2/16/1993Dr. U.R. Ananta Murthy elected President of the Kendra Sahitya Academy.
6/30/1755Jayappa Shinde who was the son of Ronoji Shinde was murdered.
10/5/1957Nehru becomes the first recipient of the key of Hiroshima Peace City.
8/27/2000Mika Hakkinen wins the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix in SPA-Francorchamps at Belgium.
8/25/1996194 pilgrims die of cold at the cave temples of Amarnath .
4/2/1987Indian Standards Institution becomes Bureau of Indian Standards.
1/17/1993LTTE commander Sadasivan Krishnakumar alias Kittu was killed in a ship blaze off Madras coast.