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Historical Event on 5/6/1997

12 persons killed and eight seriously injured in two blasts in east Delhi.

Other Historical Dates and Events
8/23/1947Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was sworn is as the Deputy Prime Minister of India.
9/8/1911Anand Gopal Sheorey, great Hindi writer, litterateur and journalist, was born at Sausar in Madhya Pradesh.
7/20/1957India's biggest sheet-glass manufacturing factory formally opened in Hazaribagh, Bihar.
5/14/1956Govt announces that decimal coinage will be introduced in India from April 1, 1957.
11/15/1997INS Delhi' commissioned.
1/26/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963) became the first President of India. He remained President from Jan. 26,1950 to May 13, 1962.
3/25/1911L. D. Swamikannu publishes ""Manual of Indian Chronology"" in Bombay.
1/17/1989Colonel J. K. Bajaj was the first Indian to reach the geographic South Pole.
5/12/1998Bill Clinton, US President, asks India to sign the CTBT.
4/6/1664Abraham Shipmen died without taking charge of Bombay Islands from Portuguese.