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Historical Event on 5/7/1996

Third and final phase of polling begins for 185 LS constituencies and 154 assembly constituencies; 55 to 60\% turnout was witnessed and there was widespread violence in Bihar.

Other Historical Dates and Events
9/14/1997Fire and explosions devastate terminals and storage tanks at Visakh Refinery of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation. Toll put at 51.
10/2/1982Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, former Finance minister of India, died.
5/14/1993Bombay High Court upholds Goa C.M. Ravi Naik's disqualification by speaker under anti-defection bill.
1/28/1846British forcibly separate Kashmir from the Sikhs and sell it to the Maharaja of Jammu for 1,000,000 pounds after the Battle of Allwal.
1/24/1950Dr. Rajendra Prasad became the first President of India.
6/21/1999Leander Paes was seeded number one in double's ranking. This was his highest double ranking.
12/23/2000The Centre gives a green signal to West Bengal Government's proposal to rename Calcutta as ''Kolkata''.
9/29/1932Hamid Dalwai, Muslim social reformer, was born.
9/1/1956Pakistani troops infiltrated the Line of Control in Kashmir.
11/21/1994Dr. Malcom Adiseshiah, 84, noted economist and educationist, died.