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Historical Event on 9/5/1998

University and college teachers affiliated to the All-India Federation of University and College Teachers Organisations call off their nation-wide strike.

Other Historical Dates and Events
10/12/1997Leander-Mahesh claim sixth doubles title of the year when they bagged the Heinekin Open ATP Tour series doubles in Singapore
4/6/1919Mahatma Gandhi declared an All India Strike against the Rollatt Act .This was the first strike.
3/20/1904Charles Freer Andrews came to India as a Christian Missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi.
12/4/1829Britain abolished ""sati"" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)
2/16/1911Bhalchandra Gopal Bapat, newspaper editor and educationalist, was born.
3/3/1924Mustafa Kamal Attaturk abolished the caliphate and established a nationalist government and thus Khilafat Movement ended without achieving its aim.
10/31/1999Efforts to restore rail and telecom links on a war footing.
1/1/1988On the Christan New Year Day, Maharashtra became the first state to launch a public campaign against smoking.
7/6/1901Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, great social reformer, politician and leader, was born at Calcutta. He was the founder of the ""Bharatiya Jana Sangh"", of which BJP is the successor party. His father Sir Asutosh was widely known in Bengal.
5/20/1992Third developmental launch of ASLV. Stretched Rohini Satellite Series (SROSS-C). Launched by third developmental flight of ASLV-D3. This carried Gamma Ray astronomy and aeronomy payload.