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Historical Event on 5/9/1996

J. Jayalalitha, Tamil Nadu CM, resigns.

Other Historical Dates and Events
11/20/1917J.C. Bose Research Institute was established in Calcutta.
9/30/1992Laurie Baker wins Rs. 25 lakh UN World Habitat award.
1/30/1996Supreme Court directs CBI and other govt. agencies to speed up the Jain hawala probe.
9/21/1954Last Indian troops withdraw from Tibet.
4/1/2000Disinvestment not distress sell, says Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee at a conference of chief executives of PSUs in New Delhi.
7/31/1991Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC. became the Air Officer Commanding, India Command. He was in this office till 31/July/1993.
1/29/1976Parliament approves permanent government and censorship of newspapers at New Delhi.
11/27/1881Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, great lawyer, philosopher and eminent historian, was born at Mirzapur, UP.
5/19/1980Dr. Ramashankar Shukla 'Rasal', famous writer, passed away.
3/17/1988First operational Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS-1A) launched by a Russian Vostok. IRS system under National Natural Resources Management System (NNRMS) coordinated at national level by the Planning Committee of NNRMS (PC-NNRMS) and the data from IRS satellites is processed by the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad. SI, a US Company, also receives and markets IRS data worldwide under a commercial contract with Antrix Corporation of the Department of Space.