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Historical Event on 5/9/1874
First horse-drawn tram car started running in Mumbai.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 3/24/1944 | Manmohan Singh, famous economist and Finance Minister of India, was born. |
| 1/12/2000 | Dr. Gurudev S. Khush of the Manila-based International Rice Research Institute wins the Wolf prize for Agriculture for the year 2000. |
| 10/18/1879 | Branch of 'Theosophical Panth' established in India. |
| 3/3/1943 | Gandhi breaks his hunger strike after 21 days. |
| 4/24/1959 | Nehru meets the exiled Dalai Lama in Mussoorie. |
| 4/30/1998 | Anna Hazare, social worker, was awarded the CARE International humanitarian award for 1998. |
| 12/30/1953 | The Untouchability (Offences) Bill published in the Gazette of India. |
| 1/24/1958 | First international Film Festival started in Mumbai. |
| 4/9/1994 | C. Rajeshwara Rao, 80, former General Secretary of Communist Party of India, passed away in Hyderabad. |
| 4/9/1994 | Maharana Pratap, great revolutionary, soldier and freedom fighter, was born. |
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