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Historical Event on 5/9/1992

Madhu Sapre, Miss India, is crowned the second runner-up at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.

Other Historical Dates and Events
5/30/1826The first Hindi newspaper 'Udant Martand' was published from Calcutta under the Editorship of Pandit Shridhar Shukla.
3/8/1673Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj conquered the fort of Panhala.
1/26/199921 dalits are gunned down by the Ranbit Sena in Jahanabad district in Bihar.
5/19/2000A `civil coup' in Fiji ousts the first ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Pal Choudhary. President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara proclaims a state of emergency.
1/25/1930Mehdi Baqer, great educationist, was born at Faizabad in UP.
3/10/1995Ashok Padbidri, famous journalist and editor, died.
3/16/1912Gandhiji commends Gokhale's attempts for abolition of indenture system.
7/5/1981Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ¦(pie) from memory.
10/14/1998Prof. Amartya Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Economics. He became the sixth Indian, by birth or citizenship, to win a Nobel.
5/13/1998World Bank cancels India donors meet.