5-September history

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5-September-1457

Property Tax was passed.

5-September-1612

East India Company's Navy eastablished.

5-September-1659

Queen Saibai, wife of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, died.

5-September-1793

Mir Kasim lost To Britishers near Rajmahal in battle of Udaynala.

5-September-1846

Sir Charles Metkaf, Governor General of East India Company, died.

5-September-1872

V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, great freeom fighter, social reformer, prolific writer, politician and leader, was born at Ottapidaram village in Tamil Nadu.

5-September-1888

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975), panentheist, great renaissance philosopher, eminent writer, free India's first vice-president and second president, was born at Tiruttani near Madras.

5-September-1904

Bhalchandra Pandharinath Bahirat, editor and expert of Saint literature, was born.

5-September-1909

Phiroze Edulji Palia, left-hand batsman and slow spin bowler, was born in Mumbai. He played in India's first Test at Lord's in 1932.

5-September-1918

Ratanji Jamshetji Tata, famous Indian industrialist and social reformer, died.

5-September-1957

Wealth Tax Bill passed in Rajya Sabha.

5-September-1962

Dr. Radhakrishnan's birthday declared as Teachers Day.

5-September-1967

Central Hindi Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister.

5-September-1979

Earl of Mountbatten's funeral held in Burma.

5-September-1987

Shanbagh, Vandana Rao, Shiny and Usha sets record in the women's category for 4x400m race in 3.31.55 seconds at Rome .

5-September-1988

The country goes without newspapers on this day as the entire newspaper industry had protested against the Defamation Bill.

5-September-1990

Rajya Sabha approves the Prasar Bharati Bill rejecting by voice vote three motions moved by the Congress(I) to refer the Bill to a joint select committee.

5-September-1995

30 member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Council sworn-in that was conceded by the Government of India in 1993.

5-September-1997

CBI chargesheets former Railway Minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief for possessing assets disproportionate to his income.

5-September-1997

Mother Teresa, founder of Missionaries of Charity who was awarded with Nobel Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna, died at the age of 87 due to heart attack late in the evening around 9:30 pm in Calcutta.

5-September-1998

Trishul and Akash test fired from Chandipore.

5-September-1998

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